Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a slave. He was also a grandson of a slave. He completed school in 1923. He went to black Lincoln university in Pennsylvania. He married before his graduation. His first wife Vivian had a cancer and died in 1955. Because he was black, he got denied for admission at University of Maryland law school. After sometime, he got accepted to Howard University. After he became lawyer, he sued University of Maryland for not admitting black African Americans in 1933. Thurgood Marshall always followed his mentor Charles to New York and later became chief council. He won many cases until his retirement and created a record and supported African American. He died in