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How Did Thurgood Marshall Influence The Civil Rights Movement

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Titus Redmond

Professor Pariseau
PSC-HIST 202

November 20, 2017

In my research of the civil rights movement I think Thurgood Marshall and President Kennedy is on equal footing with Martin Luther King Jr. in influence the movement. I call it a three-prong approach. Marshall helps strip the segregation law. King shows the country how it treats its minority citizens. And President Kennedy was ready to sign into law the civil rights bill.
The civil rights movement was a political movement created by civil resistance with the goal of change using nonviolent forms of resistance.
According to Adamson
, civil rights refer to the rights of a citizen to political and social freedom and equality. The birth of the modern civil rights movement was greatly influenced, by the agitation of the African Americans for equal rights and abolishment of the segregation laws. The main goal of the civil rights movement was to ensure that equal rights of the people, would be protected, by law.

This movement redefines the idea of what it meant to be free in America. Faced with racial discrimination, social prejudice and poor services, the minority groups realized that they had to fight for their rights. Studies by McWhorter showed that influential religious and business leaders and early African American scholars pioneered the modern civil rights movement. Some of the most notable individuals who spear headed the movement included the aforementioned of Marshall, King, Kennedyas

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