Thurgood by Jonah Winter and Bryan Collier.<\/a> Another influential American whose story I never learned much of until I was an adult, Thurgood graduated from Howard University and then represented a law suit against a law school that had refused to admit him because of his skin color – and won. He continued to use his platform to destroy racial discrimination, all the way up to his landmark case: Brown vs Board of Education, where the Supreme Court ruled that racially segregated schools were in violation of the 14th Amendment.\u00a0<\/p>\nAfter this victory, all racially segregated schools had to integrate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thurgood Marshall went on to break racial boundaries and, in 1967, became the first Black man to become a Supreme Court Justice. He served on the Supreme Court from 1967-1991, and passed away in 1993.\u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.15.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.15.1″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.15.1″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]
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