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Bookmark or Share- Thurgood Marshall | Biography, Legal Career, Supreme Court Tenure ...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.
- Thurgood Marshall - WikipediaThoroughgood "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.
- Thurgood Marshall - NAACPThurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S. Marshall was a towering figure who became the nation's first Black United States Supreme Court Justice.
- Justice Thurgood Marshall | Justia U.S. Supreme Court CenterMarshall won probably his most notable victory as a civil rights lawyer in Brown v. Board of Education. This 1954 decision mandated racial desegregation in schools, discarding the doctrine of "separate but equal" on which the Supreme Court had relied for over half a century.
- Thurgood Marshall ‑ Movie & Education - HISTORYThurgood Marshall—perhaps best known as the first African American Supreme Court justice—played an instrumental role in promoting racial equality during the civil rights movement....
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