Thurgood Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
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lived through Jim Crow. His father was killed by the Klan but his life
insurance company wouldn't pay saying he committed suicide. His head
was bashed so hard that his head was nearly severed. Couldn't have been
suicide. His mother had a nervous breakdown and never recovered.
Malcolm X was 6 years old at the time and spent his childhood in foster
homes.
He broke the law as a young man and spent 6 years in prison where he
became a Muslim. For years he hated whites. He became well educated by
reading and became a black leader. He wanted a black uprising until a
few months after Kennedy was assassinated, he traveled to Mecca where he
joined a different sect of Muslims that taught racial equality. He
returned with a different attitude toward the issues facing blacks.
Then he was killed black Muslims from Farrakhan's group. He believed
the blacks needed to free themselves peacefully but he wanted power for
black people.</span>
Judaism Christianity and islam
