What were Thurgood Marshall's greatest accomplishments?\nMarshalls greatest \naccomplishments??
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It was Marshall who ended legal segregation in the United States. He won Supreme Court victories breaking the color line in housing, transportation and voting, all of which overturned the 'Separate-but-Equal' apartheid of American life in the first half of the century. It was Marshall who won the most important legal case of the century, Brown v. Board of Education, ending the legal separation of black and white children in public schools. The success of the Brown case sparked the 1960s civil rights movement, led to the increased number of black high school and college graduates and the incredible rise of the black middle-class in both numbers and political power in the second half of the century.\n\nAnd it was Marshall, as the nation's first African-American Supreme Court justice, who promoted affirmative action -- preferences, set-asides and other race conscious policies -- as the remedy for the damage remaining from the nation's history of slavery and racial bias. Justice Marshall gave a clear signal that while legal discrimination had ended, there was more to be done to advance educational opportunity for people who had been locked out and to bridge the wide canyon of economic inequity between blacks and whites.
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Greatest: Mr. John F. Kennedy (saved our country)\nWorst: Mr. Shrubs (bush) (demoralized it)
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I assume you mean Frederick Douglass?\n\nFrederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. \n\nA brilliant speaker, Douglass was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and so became recognized as one of America's first great black speakers. He won world fame when his autobiography was publicized in 1845. Two years later he bagan publishing an antislavery paper called the North Star.\n\nDouglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history and is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice.
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No I think Bill Russell was the greatest.\n\nCoach
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I'm still chuckling at liv2play106's answer -- brilliant!\n\nWithout overthinking this question too much, I'd invite Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill and John Lennon. \n\nJefferson was the most impressive intellectual figure of his time (though there were several others worth mentioning) and remains to this day my political idol. While hosting a White House dinner for a group of Nobel laureates, JFK famously referred to the gathering as "the most extraordinary collection of talent and human knowledge that has ever been gathered at the White House -- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."\n\nChurchill was a brilliant, thoughtful and eloquent man whose ability to inspire and lead the people of Great Britain during the darkest hours of WWII can best be described as sublime. He also happens to be one of the greatest writers and orators, political or otherwise, this world has ever known. Like Jefferson, a towering intellect.\n\nLennon, one of the greatest musicians and songwriters of all time, would be invited to represent someone more or less contemporary and to add some much-needed levity to the occasion. Besides, if we were all very lucky, he might just favour us with a song. Nice. :)
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Thurgood Marshall died in 1993.  Isn't it a little late to nominate him for person of the year?
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I was going to say the exact same.  Ghandi!  Fantastic leader, interesting journey and a lot of things to find to research him.  \nAlso Nelson Mandala, he's still alive today.  Not sure if that's criteria or not...\nAlso, Albert Einstein!  He's lead an interesting life to say the least, and theres plenty of ways you could write an essay on him\nGood luck!
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Hello....google has tonnes of information about this guy. Try this.
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Historians will ultimately see Clinton as a slightly better than average president.  While almost no one on Main Street remembers anything about his presidency other than his affair, some of us do recall more about his eight years in office.  Among his accomplishments -- taking a huge federal deficit and turning it into a huge federal surplus (which Bush has again made into a huge federal deficit); presiding over the best post-World War II economy; putting 100,000 police on the streets through federal funding, aiding in the sharp drop in crime rates during his presidency; and above all in sharp contrast to some other president we know, presiding over a period in which America and its president were admired and respected.  Whenever I tell my conservative friends all this, all they want to talk about is Monica.  I suspect they need to adjust their priorities.  On the other hand, Clinton's affair was a shocking dereliction of duty and betrayal of trust (he should have been censured, not impeached) and his handling of health care was pretty ham-handed.  Rest assured, however, that regardless of what historians think of him, the crowd that answers these questions -- which is much more representative of mainstream American thought than I am -- will continue to smear him and talk about Monica.
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I'm not sure "greatness" and "improving the state of the nation" should be the same yardsticks.  I consider Lincoln the greatest man because he worked his way up from poverty, was a great writer, thought deeply about philosophy and religion instead of just accepting the easy dogma of the culture or of one denomination, overcame depression, kept a sense of humor and humility, and was a skilled politician in the best sense of the word.  I'm probably overlooking many other aspects of his greatness as a human being.  You could argue that he did the most for improving the state of the nation by leading a second revolution with a goal of real equality, not just for prosperous white males, and getting rid of slavery.\n\nFor improving the state of the nation, it's a close call with Teddy Roosevelt, though.  Roosevelt led the way in taking the country back from the Robber Barons, who had trampled the working class for over a generation.  That's an aspect of American history that isn't covered much, but it certainly is relavent to today's situation, where the president is rabid about concentrating more wealth in the hands of the top 1% while the bottom 50% controls 2.5% of the private wealth of the nation
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Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy.   An ancestor of mine was his cousin.
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read the Jefferson papers. He wrote the Articals of confederation before he wrote the Constitution. He also was a avaid sponser of the secant amendent. He was a active member of the first contintal congress. and amny other things. He was one of the greatest men in the begining of our nation.
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http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Douglass
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First of all, I think you mean 'determined.'   MLKJ stood up for his beliefs and morals, despite death threats, being arrested, and being beaten many times.  He stood up for racial equality and peaceful protest, and made such a significant contribution to our country as far as civil rights is concerned.
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http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/cmplist.htm#IV\n\nlook  here
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Union:  at first, Winfield Scott led the forces, but "old fuss and feathers" was too old for the job...\nLincoln tried McClellan (and many others!!) but McClellan was nicknamed "tardy" for a reason--he didn't win decisively enough or pursue the Confederates\nUltimately, Lincoln gave the honors to Ulysses Hiram Simpson Grant\nfor the Confederacy---while there were many great generals (Johnston, for example) it was Robert E Lee who commanded (no pun intended) the greatest respect...and the one who surrendered for the CSA in April of 1865
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"greatest" and "leader" are contradictory.\n\nNo-one who accepts a position of power or leadership can ever be considered "great".