A brief biography that in no way does "justice" to Thurgood Marshall's career:
Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court. He served on the court from 1967 until he retired in 1991. Earlier in his career, Marshall worked as a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and helped win the 1954 landmark desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Throughout his life, Marshall used the law to promote civil rights and social justice.
Some highlights of Marshall's life :
* 1930 - Thurgood graduates with honors from Lincoln University, PA
(cum laude).
* 1934 - Thurgood receives law degree from Howard University (magna
cum laude); begins private practice in Baltimore, Maryland.
* 1934 - Begins to work for Baltimore branch of NAACP.
* 1935 - Worked with Charles Houston, wins first major civil rights
case, Murray v. Pearson.
* 1936 - Becomes assistant special council for NAACP in New York.
* 1940 - Wins Chambers v. Florida, the first of twenty-nine Supreme
Court victories.
* 1943 - Won case for integration of schools in Hillburn, New York.
* 1944 - Successfully argues Smith v. Allwright, overthrowing the
South's "white primary".
* 1946 - Thurgood Marshall received a medal from the NAACP.
* 1948 - Wins Shelley v. Kraemer, in which Supreme Court strikes down
legality of racially restrictive covenants.
* 1950 - Wins Supreme Court victories in two graduate-school
integration cases, Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State
Regents.
* 1951 - Visits South Korea and Japan to investigate charges of racism
in U.S. armed forces. He reported that the general practice was one of
"rigid segregation."
* 1954 - Wins Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, landmark case
that demolishes legal basis for segregation in America.
* 1956 - Wins Browder v. Gayle, ending the practice of segregation on
buses and ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
* 1957 - Founds and becomes the first president-director counsel of
the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., a nonprofit law
firm separate and independent of the NAACP
* 1961 - Defends civil rights demonstrators, winning Supreme Court
victory in Garner v. Louisiana; nominated to Second Circuit Court of
Appeals by President J.F. Kennedy.
* 1961 - Appointed circuit judge, makes 112 rulings, none of them
reversed on certiorari by Supreme Court (1961-1965).
* 1965 - Appointed United States Solicitor General by President Lyndon
B. Johnson; wins 14 of the 19 cases he argues for the government
(1965-1967).
* 1967 - Becomes first African American elevated to U.S. Supreme Court
(1967-1991).
* 1991 - Retires from the Supreme Court.
* 1992 - Receives the Liberty Medal recognizing Marshall's long
history of protecting individual rights under the Constitution.
* 1993 - Dies at age 84 in Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall (wiki)
chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/hill/marshall.htm
www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/marshallthrgd
A truly great American whose memory we celebrate during Black History Month.
Justice Marshall is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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~Sir Duke~ 52 months ago | reply
A true American hero! We owe a lot to the diligence of this man! Thank you Tony...
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Tony Fischer Photography 52 months ago | reply
Thanks, my friend!
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sgterniebilko 51 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called PICS & FACTS, and we'd love to have this added to the group!