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May 15, 2024 · Thurgood Marshall (born July 2, 1908, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died January 24, 1993, Bethesda) was a lawyer, civil rights activist, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967–91), the Court’s first African American member. As an attorney, he successfully argued before the Court the case of Brown v.
Feb 26, 2017 · Thurgood Marshall - An American Hero. Social Science, Philosophy and Religion Department, Central Library, Sunday, February 26, 2017. Betsy Graves Reyneau. Thurgood Marshall (detail). 1956. Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Web. “You do what you think is right and let the law catch up” —Thurgood Marshall.
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e. Thoroughgood " Thurgood " Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought for ...
Thurgood Marshall was a great Black Man. He sat on the Highest Court in the land. Born in the midst of poverty, He grew up in the shadow of liberty, Walking the streets designed by Banneker. In the Capitol of America. He lawyered for the "N Double Aay See P". To remove the stigma for you and for me.
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A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Marshall graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1930. He applied to the University of Maryland Law School but was rejected because he was Black. Marshall received his law degree from Howard University Law Schoolin 1933, graduating first in his class. At Howard, he met his mentor Charles Hamilton Housto...
After graduating from Howard, one of Marshall's first legal cases was against the University of Maryland Law School in the 1935 case Murray v. Pearson. Working with his mentor Charles Hamilton Houston, Marshall sued the school for denying admission to Black applicants solely on the basis of race. The legal duo successfully argued that the law schoo...
President John F. Kennedy nominated Marshall to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1961. Four years later, President Lyndon B. Johnson named Marshall U.S. solicitor general and onAug. 30, 1967, Marshall was confirmedby the U.S. Senate and joined the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first Black justice. During his nearly 25-year ten...
Oct 29, 2009 · Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, William Marshall, was a railroad porter, and his mother, Norma, was a teacher. After he completed high school in ...
Jan 24, 1993 · Marshall, Thurgood. July 2, 1908 to January 24, 1993. As an attorney fighting to secure equality and justice through the courts, Thurgood Marshall helped build the legal foundation for Martin Luther King’s challenges to segregation. On 6 February 1958, King wrote Marshall to express his gratitude for Marshall’s efforts in the Montgomery bus ...
