A Lawyer that I inspire to be like

Thurgood Marshall is a lawyer that I admire very much. He was one of America's leading radicals and revolutionaries. He fought for change in America for all people. He was also well known for his contribution to the civil rights movement. Even though Thurgood Marshall pressed for equal rights of American American, he also wanted justice for all. Thurgood Marshall was born July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the great grandson of a slave. He was also the son of a dining car waiter and a school teacher. Marshall's father, William Marshall, instilled in him from youth an appreciation for the United States constitution and the rule of law. After graduating from Frederick Douglass high school in 1925, he enterd college at the all-black Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylania in 1930. There he recieved his B.A. Marshall applied to the University of Maryland School of law but was denied admission because he was black. Later, he applied and was accepted into Howard Law School. He soon became influenced by dean, Charles Hamilton Houston, who instilled in his students the desire to apply the tenets of the Constitution to all Americans.