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Jan 25, 1993 · Although Marshall gained fame through the Brown decision, his career was far from over. On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall climbed the stairs to the highest court in our country, put on the majestic black robe, and walked into the court room to become the first African-American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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 ...
Jan 24, 1993 · Thurgood Marshall had a fresh, passionate voice and became a champion of civil rights, both on the bench and through almost 30 Supreme Court victories before his appointment, during times of severe racial strains. Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908, to Norma Arica and William Canfield Marshall.
Jun 8, 2018 · MARSHALL, Thurgood. ( b. 2 July 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland; d. 24 January 1993 in Bethesda, Maryland), pioneering civil rights attorney who fought tirelessly for the equal treatment of all Americans under the law and who was the first African-American justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jan 24, 1993 · Thurgood Marshall had a fresh, passionate voice and became a champion of civil rights, both on the bench and through almost 30 Supreme Court victories before his appointment, during times of severe racial strains. Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908, to Norma Arica and William Canfield Marshall.
Thurgood Marshall, 1967-1991. THURGOOD MARSHALL was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908. He was graduated in 1930 from Lincoln University and in 1933 from Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C. Marshall began a legal career as counsel to the Baltimore Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ...
Aug 11, 2023 · Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993), the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court, consistently championed First Amendment and other individual rights. He viewed the amended Constitution, in the words of his biographer Juan Williams, as “essentially a manifesto of individual liberty” (p. 400). Marshall aruged Brown v.
