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t. 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.
Marshall talks about working for Al Gore and advising the campaigns of both Kennedy and Gore. He also touches on Supreme Court nominations, including Clarence Thomas, the successor to his father. Thurgood Marshall, Jr. Oral History | Miller Center
Mar 28, 2024 · Thurgood Marshall, lawyer and civil rights activist who was the first African American member of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving as an associate justice from 1967 to 1991. As an attorney, he successfully argued before the Supreme Court the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
Jul 14, 2021 · There’s a story Thurgood Marshall loved to tell about the day the Supreme Court handed down its landmark 1958 decision in Cooper v. Aaron, ordering the integration of the public schools of...
The Port Chicago 50 at 76: Time for Exoneration by Thurgood Marshall, Jr. and John A. Lawrence. July 17 marks the 76th anniversary of the Port Chicago Disaster. The Port Chicago 50 have yet to be exonerated.
Jan 15, 2016 · Today’s America again calls to mind Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall, two epochal figures who stood in the doorway of an earlier Black Lives Matter movement, both together and apart. They found themselves staring into sometimes corrupt, and mostly white, police departments.
Oct 2, 2020 · How Thurgood Marshall became the first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice. As a civil rights attorney, he won a landmark case to end segregation in public schools—then fought to uphold those...
