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Before 1960

Thurgood Marshall Challenges Jim Crow at UM

Thurgood Marshall was denied entrance to the University of Maryland Law School in 1930. In 1933, he took the case of Donald Gaines Murray who had been similarly treated by UM and won. The Murray case was a big step toward the 1954 Brown decision.
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Vivian Simpson Challenges Gender Discrimination (1928)

Vivian Simpson protested the harsh gender discrimination and sexual harassement at UM during the supposedly “liberated” 1920’s.

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