thurgood marshall
Today I was born, I was the second son of William Marshall, my dad. I was born on July 2, 1908, in West Baltimore, Maryland. My father worked as a dining car waiter for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. This job was descent for African Americans at that time. My aunt once remarked that when I was a child I was very cute and I had big dark eyes. On September 4, 1929 I married a women named Vivian Burey, although she was older then me I still accepted her. On that year I married Vivian, later we moved into a small house in Oxford, and I became a bellhoper, and waiter. During college years I was playing more than studying, and usually I got B's and C's as a grade, but Vivian turned me around and encouraged me to work harder. After that I started getting A's. In 1932, I was a second year law student in college and I was asked to write an argument from my favorite teacher Mr. Hastie. Mr. Hastie was a graduate from Harvard University and was the first African American Federal Judge. Even thoug
h I lost side of the case I learned a lot about actual practice law. I asked her the president of what, and she said it was the president of the United States. When I picked up the phone Lyndon B. Johnson invited me to come to Washington DC, he wanted to talk about my new job. When I got to the White House, Johnson asked me to accept the nomination to the post of U.S. solicitor general, I said yes I accepted it and after two weeks of the hearing I had a case.
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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