Good for Thurgood!

Good for Thurgood!

Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was African American, and his grandfather had once been a slave.

By the time Thurgood was born, it was against the law to own slaves. Even so, when Thurgood was a child, the South was still segregated. Black people were not allowed to eat in many restaurants that served white people.

Black people were not allowed to sit in the same train cars as white people.

Black children in the South were not allowed to go to school with white children.

Those laws were unfair. At the dinner table, Thurgood's family used to argue about what to do about those laws. Thurgood became very good at arguing.