Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was the first African-American Supreme Court justice in the United States. Marshall's dedicated work laid the legal cornerstone for civil rights.

As chief attorney for the NAACP, Marshall earned a reputation as an exceptional lawyer, winning 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall's primary target was segregation in all its manifestations: interstate travel, housing laws, voting rights and education. The most celebrated of his victories, the landmark Brown v. the Topeka, Kansas Board of Education in 1954, ended legal segregation in public schools.
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