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Thurgood Marshall
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Archival Overview
Legendary civil rights lawyer and jurist who argued and won Brown v. Board of Education (1954) dismantling legal racial segregation, and became the first African American appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
Biographical Record
Thurgood Marshall (1908 – 1993) was an American jurist and civil rights pioneer who dismantled the constitutional scaffolding of Jim Crow segregation. As chief counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Marshall traveled across hostile Southern courts for twenty-five years, arguing thirty-two cases before the Supreme Court and winning twenty-nine.
His historic victory in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) established that state-mandated segregation in public schools was inherently unequal and unconstitutional, striking down the 'separate but equal' doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson. Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, Marshall spent twenty-four years defending individual privacy rights, equal protection, the abolition of the death penalty, and affirmative action.
Key Life Milestones
Victory in Brown v. Board of Education
Argued and won the unanimous Supreme Court decision declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Sworn into the Supreme Court
Took the constitutional oath as the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialBethesda, Maryland, United States