Do Now: Feb. 8 th, 2013 What sentence is the main idea of the pargraph? Marshall’s deep faith in the power of racial integration came out of a middle-class perspective in turn-of-the-century Balitmore. He was the child of an activist black community that had established its own schools and fought for equal rights from the time of the Civil War. His own family, of an interracial background had been at the forefront of demands by Baltimore blacks for equal treatment. Out of that unique family and city was born Thurgood Marshall, the architect of American race relations in the twentieth century.

But for black Americans espcielaly, Marshall stood as a colossus. It can be reasonably infered that the author refers to Marshall as a “colossus” (see line above) in order to illustrate that: A. within the African American community, Marshall’s guidance was similar to that of Malcolm X and King. B. by virtue of his work, Marshall was a monumental figure, especially to those in the African American community

Or is it… C. for Marshall to have won so many important legal cases, his legal training must have been colossal. D. though Marshall’s work has endured through time, it is little known to the general public.

And 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 blacks and to bridge the wide canyon of economic inequality between blacks and whites.

Which of the following most accurately states the main idea of this paragraph? A. Marshall questioned the effectiveness of laws created to remedy damage done by the nation’s history of racial inequity. B. As the nation’s first African American Supreme Court justic, Marshall signaled that legal discrimination had ended. C. Marshall believed that there must be an ongoing commitment to providing increased educational and economic opportunity as well as legal equality for African Americans. D. Marshall believed affirmative action and other race- conscious policies would not remedy the wide canyon of inequity found in the USA.