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Thurgood Marshall, (born July 2, 1908, Baltimore, Md., U.S.—died Jan. 24, 1993, Bethesda, Md.), U.S. jurist and civil-rights advocate.He received his law degree ...
Mar 10, 2021 · How Thurgood Marshall Paved the Road to ‘Brown v. Board of Education’ A case in Texas offered a chance for the prosecutor and future Supreme Court justice to test the legality of segregation
Jan 28, 2021 · On August 30, 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Grandson of an enslaved person, Marshall lived through some of the most trying times of race ...
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Justice Thurgood Marshall: First African American Supreme Court Justice. On June 13, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated distinguished civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Jul 22, 2024 · Thurgood Marshall, a trailblazer, in the Supreme Court. The list below are of cases between 1943-1961, brought before the Supreme Court of the United States by the NAACP or the Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., in which Thurgood Marshall argued the case.
Thurgood Marshall may have been inspired to become a lawyer after pulling a prank in high school. As punishment, his principal made Marshall read the U.S. Constitution, which outlines the rights all Americans should have.
