Marshall, Thurgood
1908–1993
First black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, director of the legal defense fund for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and a lawyer whose victory in Brown v. Board of Education outlawed segregation in American public education.
Marshall, Thurgood
1908–1993
First black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, director of the legal defense fund for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and a lawyer whose victory in Brown v. Board of Education outlawed segregation in American public education.
- Kate Tuttle
A version of this article originally appeared in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.
