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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...
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Arguably, Marshall's introduction to law came in high school when, as a punishment for a prank he had pulled, the school's principal made him read the U.S. Constitution. Marshall immediately liked the document and set about memorizing various parts of it. He took special interest in Article III and the Bill of Rights. Article III establishes the ju...
Marshall attended the all-black Lincoln University (the oldest African-American institution of higher education in the country) and, after being rejected from the University of Maryland School of Law because of his race, went on to attend law school at Howard University and graduated first in his class. It was at Howard University that Marshall met...
Together with Houston, Marshall participated in the cases Murray v. Maryland (1936) and Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada (1938). When Houston returned to private practice in 1938, Marshall took over the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and argued Sweat v. Painter (1950) and McLaurin v. Oklahoma Board of Regents of Higher Education (1950). Hav...
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...
Oct 27, 2009 · Thurgood Marshall, the head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, served as chief attorney for the plaintiffs. (Thirteen years later, President Lyndon B. Johnson would appoint...
