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    Have your students been asking the question, Who was Thurgood Marshall? Use this Thurgood Marshall Mini Biography Unit to help you study and organize your learning about one of the first black Justice on the Supreme Court. Included in this mini-unit you will find short reading passages, organizers, interactive notebook foldable activities, writing activities, posters, video links, and more.

    Your students will love studying the life of this amazing man: Thurgood Marshall.

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    • Thurgood Marshall BIO Poster
    • Thurgood Marshall Reading Passage and Quiz
    • Brown vs. Board of Education
    • A Lasting Legacy
    • Looking at the Bright Side
    • Doodle Poster
    • Timeline
    • Thurgood Marshall Writing Activity
    • Interactive Notebook Foldable Activities
    • Thurgood Marshall Research Organizer
    • Thurgood Marshall Character Qualities
    • Thurgood and Me C

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      The past few years in America have been frightening and fitful seasons, given the brew of race, crime, and police misconduct. A black woman is arrested in Texas for a minor offense, only later to be found dead, hanging in her cell. Suicide? Her family doubts it. A black man is shot in Chicago, 16 rounds. He had a small knife, but he was walking away from the police officer, who has been charged with murder. There are younger victims: Tamir Rice, shot dead in Cleveland by police, no charges brought. Trayvon Martin, shot dead by a neighborhood watchman in Florida, his killer acquitted. It's all a long American story, a long funeral procession.

      There is a nationwide call now for police reform. All lives matter, sure enough, but race is out in the open anew. The past has been evoked. The holes in the justice system seem more exposed than ever.

      Today’s America again calls to mind Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall, two epochal figures who stood in the doorway of an earlier Bl

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      Thurgood Marshall

      US Supreme Court justice from 1967 to 1991

      For other uses, see Thurgood Marshall (disambiguation).

      Thurgood Marshall

      Official portrait, 1976

      In office
      October 2, 1967 – October 1, 1991
      Appointed byLyndon B. Johnson
      Preceded byTom C. Clark
      Succeeded byClarence Thomas
      In office
      August 23, 1965 – August 30, 1967
      PresidentLyndon B. Johnson
      Preceded byArchibald Cox
      Succeeded byErwin Griswold
      In office
      October 5, 1961 – August 23, 1965
      Appointed byJohn F. Kennedy
      Preceded bySeat established
      Succeeded byWilfred Feinberg
      In office
      February 12, 1940 – October 5, 1961
      Preceded byPosition established
      Succeeded byJack Greenberg
      Born

      Thoroughgood Marshall


      (1908-07-02)July 2, 1908
      Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
      DiedJanuary 24, 1993(1993-01-24) (aged 84)
      Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
      Resting placeArlington National Cemetery
      Political