Assignment 1: Race Relations
In order to provide students with an understanding of race relations in the early part of the 20th century and an introduction to the First Year Book, ask each group of three students to take one chapter through the first one through 8. After they’ve discussed it, have them summarize it for the rest of the class. This provides everyone with background information.

Use the timelines on the web (http://www.firstyearbook.umd.edu/TMarshall/res_timeline.html) as you discuss Thurgood Marshall’s early years. Compare what was happening in the Civil Rights movement and what was happening at the University of Maryland.

Assignment 2: Thurgood Marshall Cases
Students may be aware that Marshall argued the Brown v. Board of Education case or know that he served as a Supreme Court Justice. They may be unaware of revolutionary work he did during his career at the NAACP. One assignment may be to ask each student to select a case or event on the list below and find out more about it. Students can then share their findings with the rest of the class. The page numbers below only refer to the first time the case/event was mentioned in the book. Students will need to use other sources to find more information.

If it’s a case*:
a. what year
b. what strategy did Marshall use
c. what was the outcome
d. what was the impact

If it’s an event:
e. describe what happened
f. put it in context of history (what else was happening at that time?)
g. what was its significance

1	1936: Murray v. Maryland*
2	1936: Catonsville High School*, p. 79
3	1939: Mills v. Anne Arundel School System*, p.90
4	1937: Tennessee College of Pharmacy* and University of Missouri Law School*/Donald Gaines, p. 96; 1950: Sweatt v. Painter*
5	1940: Lucille Blumford and the University of Missouri Journalism School*, p. 98
6	1938: Jury Duty/George Porter, Houston, TX., p. 101
7	1944: Smith v. Allwright*, p. 110
8	WWII: labor unions and military segregation, p. 122; race riots, p. 126; Yerba Buena Island, p. 129
9	1946: James Stephenson and the first race riot after WWII, p. 132
10	1946: Joe Louis versus Max Schneling, p. 144
11	1946: Morgan v. Virginia*
12	1947: Patton v. Missouri* and Watts v. Indiana*, p. 147
13	1950’s: Thurgood Marshall’s relationship with Hoover and the FBI; NAAACP’s resolution to keep out communists, p.
14	1948: Ada Louis Sipuel* and Langston Law School, p. 176
15	1947: Carter Wesley, editor of the Houston Informer, criticized Marshall’s fight for integration.
16	Cases that made up 1954 Brown v Board of Education* (VA, KS, SC, DC)
17	Thurgood Marshall’s relationship with MLK, Jr. and Malcom X
18	1955: Montgomery Bus Boycott*