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Earl Warren was born in 1891 in Los Angeles, California. His father's job, as a railroad car repairman, brought his family to Bakersfield, where Warren was raised. In his small frontier town he worked summers, like his father, on the railways. During his summer job he learned about normal working people and their problems. Little did know later he'd address and help people with those problems.

Later in his life Warren attended University of California at Berkeley and later went to their law school. He would after serve in the US army for a small time frame during World War I and then return to the US to work at the Alameda County district attorney's office. He proved himself as a lawyer while working in Alameda County. He showed his skills in being a prosecutor but always made sure it was a fair trial. In 1931 Warren would be dubbed, by one survey's results, the best district attorney in the entire country. Warren would work that job for 18 years. In 1938 he became the Attorney General of California. He would hold that position for four years, until 1942. After, he was elected to be Governor of California. As governor he had a role in the evacuation of Japanese heritage on the west coast. This went against many of his future decisions in court but he would later say during war-times he thought he made the correct decision. As governor Warren would serve for three terms until 1953. (Chief Justice Earl Warren)

Before the end of his term Governor Warren would help former General Eisenhower to get nominated for the presidential election. Then a year later Eisenhower indeed did become president and in 1954 he paid Warren back by nominating him for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Warren was chosen for the job, but he was put on a court that's justices were split on beliefs about the power of the courts. During his time on the court he would be remembered for uniting those justices. For example in one of his famous cases Brown v. Board of Education. This was on the very controversial subject of segregation and somehow he helped to make the court vote unanimously. This case also marked a beginning, after this case Warren would show more involvement by the Judiciary Branch. He made a place for them as protectors of people's rights.

Warren would be remembered for his work on the court, his time as a lawyer, and being governor. He strictly believed in peoples rights and would always help protect them and that's what made him the great man he was. Earl Warren died in 1974.

Thurgood Marshall-
Thurgood Mashall, great grandson of a slave, was born 1908. His family wasn't rich, his family wasn't special but Marshall was determined. When he grew up Marshall would go places. As a young man he would attend Howard University Law School in Washington D.C. He studied under Charles Hamilton Houston. Houston was said to have made civil rights a very important part in his teachings. Marshall would learn many things from this man before he graduated first in his class in 1933.

When he was out of school his teacher, Houston, came to him and suggested he work to help with the Nation Association for the Advancment of Colored People (NAACP). At this time the NAACP was fighting many cases and Marshall would do great good working with them. Marshall took his teacher's advice and went to see what he could do. At first he served as a special counsel for the NAACP. After he would become director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He was behind many of the litigation strategies that would challenge racial oppression in many parts of everyday life like education, transportation, and criminal justice. One of his more famous cases he defended Linda Brown in Brown v. Board of Education, 1954. He would work very hard while serving for the NAACP.

In 1967, President Johnson would nominate Marshall for an Associate Justice position on the United States Supreme Court. Marshall Got the job. Not only was this a great thing that he was a justice but he broke a barrier in doing so, he was the first African American on the Supreme Court. During his term he was a believer in equal protection under the law. In many cases he would fight hard for this. He also did not believe the Constitution was drafted as well as it should have been. He didn't like how it allowed slavery. He also found other defects that he did not approve of and would fight to change so all peoples rights were equal.

He retired from the Supreme Court in 1991 and died two years later in 1993. Marshall would be remembered for many different things, defending Linda Brown, being the first black justice, and protecting the rights of the people. (Justice Thurgood Marshall)

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