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Thurgood Marshall
July 2, 1908: Born in West Baltimore 1921-1925: Attends Colored High and Training School (which became Frederick Douglass High School in 1923). 1929: Marries Vivian Burey. 1930: Graduates cum laude from Lincoln University, in Lincoln, Pa. 1934: Begins to work for Baltimore branch of NAACP. 1940-1961: Serves as legal director of the NAACP; in 1940, he wins the first of his 29 Supreme Court victories out of 32 he argued. (Chambers vs. Florida). 1954: Wins Brown vs. Board of Education case, the landmark action that ends the legal segregation of schools in America. Feb. 1955: Vivian Marshall dies. Dec. 1955: He marries Cecilia A. Suyat; their union produces Marshall's two sons, Thurgood Jr. and John William. 1961: Is nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, by President Kennedy. 1961: Is appointed circuit judge; makes 112 rulings, all of them later upheld by Supreme Court. 1965: Is appointed U.S. Solicitor General by President Johnson; wins 14 of the 19 cases he argues for the government (1965-1967). 1967: Becomes first African-American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. 1991: Retires from Supreme Court. 1993: Dies at 84 in Bethesda. |
Susan B. Anthony
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1820 - Susan Brownell Anthony born on February 15 in Adams, Massachsetts, the second of 7 children.
1851 - Anthony travels to Syracuse anti-slavery convention. There, she meets Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 1852 - Anthony attends state convention of Sons of Temperance and is told to "listen and learn". She attends her first women's rights convention. 1854 - Anthony circulates petitions for married women's property rights and woman suffrage. She is refused permission to speak at the Capitol and Smithsonian in Washington. She begins her New YorkState campaign for woman suffrage in Mayville, ChatauquaCounty, speaking and traveling alone. 1868 - Anthony begins publication of The Revolution and forms Working Women's Associations for women in the publishing and garment trades. 1869 - Anthony calls the first Woman Suffrage Convention in WashingtonD.C. 1872 - Anthony is arrested for voting and is indicted in Albany. She continues to lecture and attend conventions.. 1881 - Anthony, Stanton, and Matilda Joslin Gage publish Volume I of History of Woman Suffrage, followed by Volumes II, III and IV in 1882, 1885 and 1902. 1905- Anthony meets with President Theodore Roosevelt in WashingtonD.C. about submitting a suffrage amendment to Congress. 1906 - Anthony attends suffrage hearings in Washington, D.C. She gives her "Failure is Impossible" speech at her 86th birthday celebration. Anthony dies at her Madison Street home on March 13. 1920 - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, also known as the Susan B. Anthony amendment, grants the right to vote to all U.S. women over 21. (http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/timeline.php) |