Thurgood Marshall

2 July 1908 – 24 January 1993

Thurgood Marshall was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who became the first African American to serve on the United States Supreme Court. As lead counsel for the NAACP, he won the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, which declared school segregation unconstitutional. He served as an Associate Justice from 1967 to 1991.

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Born in Baltimore, Maryland
2 July 1908

Born Thoroughgood Marshall in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Graduated from Howard University School of Law
1933

Earned his law degree first in his class, mentored by Charles Hamilton Houston.

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Founded the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
1940

Became the first director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

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Won Brown v. Board of Education
17 May 1954

Argued and won the Supreme Court case declaring public school segregation unconstitutional.

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Appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals
1961 – 1965

Named by President John F. Kennedy to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Appointed U.S. Solicitor General
1965 – 1967

Became the first African American Solicitor General under President Lyndon Johnson.

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Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
2 October 1967 – 1 October 1991

Became the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court.

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Retired from the Supreme Court
1 October 1991

Stepped down after 24 years as an Associate Justice.

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Died in Bethesda, Maryland
24 January 1993

Died of heart failure at the National Naval Medical Center.

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