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 …

Jan 20, 2025 · 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. …

Oct 29, 2009 · Thurgood Marshall—perhaps best known as the first African American Supreme Court justice—played an instrumental role in promoting racial equality during the civil rights …

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 …

Thurgood 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 …

Apr 3, 2014 · Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice, played a vital part in ending legal segregation during the Civil Rights Movement through the landmark 1954 …

Thurgood Marshall was the leading architect of the strategy that ended state-sponsored segregation. Thurgood Marshall’s visionary legal work at the Legal Defense Fund was an …

Sep 18, 2023 · Thurgood Marshall was a member of the Supreme Court until retiring in 1991, serving on the Court for 25 Terms. He began when the Warren Court was at its peak, and …

Oct 1, 1991 · Marshall 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 …

Jan 21, 2007 · Thurgood Marshall was an American civil rights activist with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the first African American to …