Thurgood Marshall
July 2, 1908 –January 24, 1993
Jurist, Civil rights lawyer
Lived 84 years
- Born in
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Passed away in
- Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and civil rights advocate who successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1967, he became the first African American justice of the Supreme Court, serving until 1991.
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