Thurgood Marshall's Fight For Equality

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Obtaining equal educational opportunity is a struggle and can bring obstacles. These obstacles may seem impossible to overcome, but history has proven to us that there are individuals who are willing to fight for their equal rights. One of these individuals is Thurgood Marshall. Marshall was the first African American to join the supreme court. How does one join the supreme court? Especially if you are an African American during a time of racism and segregation. According to Baltimoresun, “ By the time he was 45 years old, Marshall would make history as the lead counsel of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, when he successfully argued that segregated schools were inherently unequal” (www.baltimoresun.com). One of Marshall’s first cases with the