Interdisciplinary (ID) LE 1360-001: Opening Diverse Doors For our final assignment in LE 1360, we had to select a historical figure and write about their accomplishments and any obstacles they had to overcome to achieve their goals.
I chose to
do my research paper on Thurgood Marshall because he is one of the most
influential people during the civil rights movement, but the most unknown. Despite being African American, he found his
way to the top of everything he did.
Marshall was denied acceptance in the Maryland School of Law because of
his race; however, that didn’t stop him from continuing his dream and going on
to change the nation. Marshall had many challenges throughout his life: he was an African American who lived in a time where blacks didn’t have the same rights or benefits as whites. He was the top of his class, graduated with honors, and after beginning his career won many cases which paved the nation’s legal system. I believe Thurgood Marshall was more influential during the twentieth century than Martin Luther King Junior or Malcolm X. Marshall was able to push the idea of desegregation through the courts and proposed the “separate but equal” doctrine was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Without Marshall’s talent and ambition, the nation wouldn't be where it is today.
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