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Jan 28, 2021 · Learn from the first African American Supreme Court justice who helped end legal segregation in Brown v. Board of Education. Read his powerful quotes on racism, equality, and the law.
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May 19, 2021 · Before becoming the first Black justice to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall stood in front of the highest court to argue against racial segregation in American schools. His involvement with this landmark legal case, Brown v. Board of Education, was critical to establishing a legal prece.
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Jan 16, 2012 · Thurgood Marshall. Image courtesy Library of Congress. Many historians and legal scholars consider the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education to be one of the most important and far reaching pronouncements in the history of the Court.
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May 15, 2024 · In the months leading up to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision — 70 years ago this month — Thurgood Marshall, arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court, successfully...
Dec 8, 2003 · Fifty years ago today, the Supreme Court heard final arguments in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. NPR's Juan Williams traces the story of Thurgood Marshall, who led the...
Having won these cases, and thus, establishing precedents for chipping away Jim Crow laws in higher education, Marshall succeeded in having the Supreme Court declare segregated public schools unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). After Brown, Marshall argued many more court cases in support of civil rights.
Mar 10, 2021 · Sherrilyn Ifill. March 10, 2021. Thurgood Marshall's work challenging school segregation in Hearne, Texas laid the groundwork for the pivotal Brown v. Board of Education case. Bettmann...
