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Marshall, Thurgood

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
US jurist and civil-rights leader. As a prominent civil-rights lawyer, he frequently presided over landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Marshall was named director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense and Education Fund in 1940. He was named to the US Court of Appeals in 1961 and served as solicitor general 1965–67. In 1967 President Johnson appointed him to the US Supreme Court, a post he held until 1991. The first black Supreme Court justice, Marshall was a strong voice for civil and individual rights throughout his career. In 1936 Marshall joined the legal staff of the NAACP, where he worked to remove the barriers set up for black people by the 1896 ruling that states could provide ‘separate but equal’ facilities for racial minorities. He also persuaded the Supreme Court to force the Maryland Law School to admit non-whites (Marshall himself had been excluded because of his colour). Other universities were…
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It makes no great difference whether we say that the Negro is wronged because he is segregated, or that he is wronged because he received unequal treatment. On the long road from his childhood home in Baltimore, Maryland, Thurgood Marshall vaulted economic and social barriers to become one of the…
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Full text Article Marshall, Thurgood (1908 - 1993)

From World of Criminal Justice, Gale
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Thurgood Marshall was the first African American member of the U.S. Supreme Court . Before his service on the bench, Marshall was an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He also served as a federal appeals court judge and as solicitor general of the…
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From The Great American History Fact-Finder
Jurist and civil rights advocate. Marshall gained national recognition between 1934 and 1961 as legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Called “Mr. Civil Rights” for his support of racial justice, he argued thirty-two cases before the Supreme Court, …
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Full text Article Marshall, Thurgood 1908–1993

From Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908. Later known as “Mr. Civil Rights,” Marshall devoted his life to advancing individual rights for African Americans, the poor, and the disadvantaged. He served as legal coursel for the National Association for the Advancement of…
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From Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience
Thurgood Marshall (Fisk University).
Thurgood Marshall was born July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland, and died January 24, 1993, in Bethesda, Maryland. Upon being denied admission to the law school at the University of Maryland, he enrolled at Howard University , where he studied under Charles Hamilton Houston , dean of the law school…
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Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall's long and illustrious career was capped by his 1967 nomination to the highest court in the land—the U.S. Supreme Court —where he became the first African American to hold the coveted position of Supreme Court Justice. At fifty-nine, the son of a…
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From The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame
Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993)
C redit : Associated Press Thurgood Marshall liked telling stories. One of his favorite concerned his days as the head of the legal arm of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1930s and 1940s representing black clients facing prosecution in the South. He…
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From Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience Full text Article Law and Government
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