About The Thurgood Marshall Club of America

Next Generation Leadership - TMCA is leadership-focused and students are chosen based on leadership criteria that include and extend beyond the classroom. Students engage in leadership activities and roles that will maximize their strengths, sharpen their interpersonal skills, and develop competencies in people management that will transfer into their selected internships.

Civic Engagement & Service Learning - Students involve themselves in activities that support voter registration, lobbying, inclusive, and direct participation in the search for the public good that renews and enriches our conceptions and experiences of democracy (earlier and modern). TMCA activities and programs will help students develop civic competencies and civic habits that include the arts of civil public argument, civic imagination, curiosity to listen, interest in and knowledge of public affairs, and the ability to work with others different from themselves on public problems in ways that deepen appreciation of others' talents. "Service-Learning" is the connection between the club and the community. Coordinated by national and local club leadership, our service-learning initiatives strive in meeting the needs of the community, and also enhance the student's personal growth and concern for social issues.

Social & Character Development - TMCA programs and activities emphasize the validity and importance of good character and those values serving the common good. Students also appreciate meeting classical needs of etiquette and mannerism as consideration for others. Balancing academic and professional pursuits with interaction and dialogue in social settings is also encouraged and facilitated by the TMCA with a clear view that social development is necessary to produce, as Dr. King once described, "the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart".