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Listen and read along with the passage about Thurgood Marshall.

Marshall as a lawyer for the NAACP

Thurgood Marshall was born in Maryland in 1908. At this time, many places were segregated. Segregated means that Black people were kept apart from white people and treated unfairly. The schools for Black children were in older, smaller buildings with fewer books. Thurgood and other Black students knew they were not getting the same chances to learn as white students.

Thurgood's father wanted him to have chances to learn outside of school. So, Thurgood and his father went to court to listen to lawyers argue. A lawyer understands the law and can use it to help people. Thurgood liked to listen to the lawyers. He decided to go to law school. But most law schools would not teach Black students. So, Thurgood Marshall went to Howard University, which had a good law school for Black students. Law school cost so much money that Marshall's mother had to sell her wedding ring to help pay for it.

After Marshall became a lawyer, he worked for a group called the NAACP. Marshall and the NAACP argued for Black people in court if they were being treated unfairly. Marshall helped people who weren't allowed to vote or were kicked out of their homes just because of their skin color. He even helped people who didn't have money to pay for a lawyer.

What did it mean if a school was segregated?

Children lived at the school and only came home on weekends.

The school was either only for white children or only for Black children.

Students went to school outside and learned skills like growing plants in a garden.

Students with different skin colors all learned together in the same school.

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