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Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice.
10 wrz 2024 · Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer and civil rights activist who was the first African American member of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving as an associate justice from 1967 to 1991. As an attorney, he successfully argued before the Supreme Court the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
24 lut 1994 · Making Civil Rights Law provides a chronological narrative history of the legal struggle, led by Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, that preceded the political battles for civil rights.
Thurgood Marshall. Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S. Marshall was a towering figure who became the nation's first Black United States Supreme Court Justice.
8 cze 2018 · Marshall, Thurgood. (b. 2 July 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland; d. 24 January 1993 in Bethesda, Maryland), lawyer and jurist who was chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the first African American to sit as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
3 kwi 2014 · Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice, played a vital part in ending legal segregation during the Civil Rights Movement through the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board...
Marshall endorsed the right to abortion, and he dissented from a 1986 decision that temporarily blunted the progress of LGBTQ+ rights. He held broad views of First Amendment principles involving free speech, the free exercise of religion, and the separation of church and state.
