Thurgood Marshall was denied entrance to the University of Maryland in 1930. He later helped Donald Murray’s legal challenge to UM’s Jim Crow admissions policies in 1935.

The career of Thurgood Marshall is a sad reminder of how far the Supreme Court has fallen since the days when he argued the Brown vrs. Board of Education case in front of the Supreme Court and the 24 years he spent as a Supreme Court Justice. With Justice William O. Douglas, he showed the world what it means to try and live up to America’s ideals. Thurgood Marshall died in 1993.