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Thurgood Marshall was born July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland to parents Norma and William Marshall. Marshall’s father was a steward at an exclusive club and his mom a kindergarten teacher. On his way home from work, Marshall’s father, would stop by the court and listen to the cases and com home and rehash the cases with Thurgood and his brother. Thurgood went to Baltimore’s Colored High and Training School (later named Fredrick Douglass High School). During his school days, Thurgood was a troublemaker, one of his greatest achievements, memorizing the Constitution, was given to him as a punishment from a teacher. He was a star member of the high school’s debate team.
After graduating high school, Thurgood attended Lincoln University, a historically

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