July 2, 2026
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall's birthday: civil rights heroes, the Supreme Court, and landmark legal battles.
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Caalarugushark media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme is
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Thirgod Marshall's Birthday. Civil rights heroes, the Supreme Court and
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landmark legal battles. Question one, on what date is Thirgood
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Marshall's birthday, a day that also became the signing date
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of the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four? Question
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two years before Brown v. Board, which nineteen thirty six
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Maryland Court of Appeals case brought by the NAACP legal
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team that included a young Thurgood Marshal forced the University
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of Maryland School of Law to admit Donald Gaines Murray.
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Question three, which nineteen forty four US Supreme Court decision
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argued by Thurgood Marshal for the NAACP struck down Texas's
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white's only democratic primary as a violation of the Fifteenth Amendment.
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Question four, as NUBACP lead Councilgod Marshal and his team
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relied on social science evidence to help secure a unanimous
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ruling in which nineteen fifty four case declaring racial segregation
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in public schools unconstitutional. Question five, which pioneering n DOUBLEACP
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Legal Defense Fund attorney a close colleague of Thurgood Marshal,
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who argued and won most of her Supreme Court cases,
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became the first black woman appointed to the federal judiciary
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in nineteen sixty six. We'll be right back with these
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answers after this break. Welcome back. Question one, What is
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good Marshall's birthday? Answer? July second, nineteen eight. Marshall was
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born in Baltimore on July second, nineteen eight. Remarkably, President
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Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act on July second,
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nineteen sixty four, a milestone Marshall helped pave through decades
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of civil rights litigation. Question two, which nineteen thirty six
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case desegregated UM law by admitting Donald Gaines Murray answer
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Murray v. Pearson. The ruling held that Maryland could not
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deny a qualified black applicant admission when no truly equal
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alternative existed. This graduate school victory helped lay the groundwork
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for later challenges to separate but equal. Question three, which
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nineteen forty four case ended Texas's white primary answer Smith v. Alright.
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The court held that primary elections are an integral part
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of the electoral process, making party exclusion state actions subject
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to constitutional limits. The decision was pivotal in restoring black
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voting rights in the South. Question four, which nineteen fifty
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four case ended public school segregation, Answer Brown V's Board
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of Education. In Brown, the court held that separate educationational
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facilities are inherently unequal, overturning Plessey's doctrine in public education.
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The opinion referenced studies, including the Clark's Doll tests to
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demonstrate segregation's harms. Question five. Who became the first black
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woman federal judge in nineteen sixty six? Answer Constance Baker Motley,
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Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the U. S
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District Court for the Southern District of New York. Motley
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helped draft Brown's briefs and led desegregation suits nationwide. She
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argued ten Supreme Court cases, winning nine. That concludes today's
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five daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions
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were crafted with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.
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