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...Williams' richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel. He showed early talent as a debater and an advocate--at age six he persuaded his mother to simplify the spelling of his name from Thoroughgood--but even more as a class clown and budding playboy. Indeed, it was not until he arrived at Howard University School of Law in 1930 and fell under the spell of its tough-minded dean, Charles Hamilton Houston, that the contours of Marshall's mission began to form...
...might tell Marshall he can expect a "Thoroughgood" time in our State...
This most un-African parable of independence is succeeded in Marshall's repertory of family stories by his paternal grandfather, "a rough and tough sailor-man. He never knew what his first name was so he took two-Thoroughgood and Thornygood. He drew two sailor's pensions till the day he died-one in each name. I was named Thoroughgood after him but by the time I was in the second grade, I got tired of spelling all that and shortened it." His maternal grandfather, Isaiah O. B. (for Olive Branch, he said) Williams, also went...
Finder's Rights. Thurgood (short for Thoroughgood) Marshall was born in Baltimore. His father was a country-club steward; his mother is a teacher in the segregated public schools there...
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