Good for Thurgood!

Good for Thurgood. Written by Marvin Bird.

瑟古德真棒。 作者：马文·伯德。

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

瑟古德·马歇尔1908年出生于马里兰州巴尔的摩市。 他是非裔美国人，他的祖父曾经是一名奴隶。

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.

瑟古德出生的时候，蓄奴已经是违法行为了。 即便如此，瑟古德小时候，美国南方依然实行种族隔离制度。 很多接待白人的餐厅都不允许黑人进入用餐。

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

黑人不允许和白人坐在同一节火车车厢里。

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

美国南方的黑人孩子不允许和白人孩子就读同一所学校。

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.

这些法律并不公平。 吃饭的时候，瑟古德的家人常常讨论该如何应对这些法律。 瑟古德慢慢变得非常擅长辩论。