Thurgood Marshall and Leadership Style

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Thurgood Marshall, America's leading 20th century radical, led a civil rights revolution that forever changed the history of American society. Thurgood Marshall eradicated the legacies of racism and segregation by using the courtroom, which had an even more profound and lasting effect on race relations than the efforts of his contemporaries, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. This paper looks at Marshall's life in the active black community of Balitmore and how he became the architect of American race relations in the twentieth century. The paper then focuses on Marshall's unique leadership style and examines how he demonstrated his visionary leadership throughout his career.

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"Because of these injustices, organizations such as the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) were created. The NAACP was probably the most significant of these foundations led by chief legislator Thurgood Marshall. During his years spent with the NAACP, Thurgood developed a strategy to fight racial segregation throughout the United States. Without Thurgood breaking new ground in the courtroom, the Civil Rights Movement would not have existed. The only way for change to occur was by altering the constitution, and Thurgood Marshal was the only Civil Rights leader using the law as means of change."

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