Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it."

My name is Thurgood Marshall and in August 1954 was my big day. I was born in July 1908, in Baltimore,MD. Growing up in Baltimore I experienced racial discrimination. I grew up in old west Baltimore, I attended a segregated public school.

During my teenage years I worked at a Pennsylvania Avenue hat store. As a teenager I was always mischievous and sent out of class. When I graduated high school in 1925 I was accepted to an All-black college called Lincoln university in Oxford, Pennsylvania. That was the same school my brother had just graduated from.

After college I went to attend a university in Maryland School of Law but i was soon rejected because of my race, I went on to attend law school at Howard University and graduated first in my class. Immediately after graduation, I opened a law office in Baltimore in 1933. As next year came up I represented the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP. I also arranged for Donald Murray to apply to the University of Maryland Law School.

I soon joined Houston at the NAACP in New York. After that In 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Me the first African American Solicitor General of the United States (1965-1967). Two years later, President Johnson nominated me to the Supreme Court. I argued 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 29. I soon got ready for my biggest case that was my big day 1954 Brown v. Board of Education. On this day I succeeded in having the Supreme Court declare segregated public schools. On January 24, 1993 I died of heart failure.

My big day changed the world because It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States.

What people can learn from my story is that no one should be treated differently because of their skin color.