A Lawyers Life

Thurgood Marshall was a great lawyer. He went to the all- black law school at Howard University, which in the 1930s was being transformed under vice-dean Charles H. Houston into a training ground for lawyers who would challenge segregation in the courts. Charles Houston became Mr. Marshall's mentor, encouraging Thurgood Marshall to confront segregation head on. After Mr. Marshall graduated from college, he worked as a lawyer for the Baltimore branch of the NAACP. One of his first major cases forced the integration of the same University of Maryland law school he had been unable to attend. These are some of the reasons how Thurgood Marshall expressed himself as a lawyer.