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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 as an Advocate | History of the Supreme CourtThurgood Marshall, born in Baltimore, Maryland, was the first Black Justice of the Supreme Court. Before President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him to the bench in 1967, Marshall had a successful career as a civil rights lawyer. He aspired to study law at his state school, the University of Maryland, but the school was segregated and refused to ...
- 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.
- How Thurgood Marshall became the first Black U.S. Supreme Court justiceDecades before Thurgood Marshall was sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court on October 2, 1967, the man who would become its first Black justice had already transformed American law.
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