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date: 16 February 2025

Marshall, Thurgood locked

(1908–1993), civil rights lawyer, first African American Supreme Court justice, architect of the attack on legally mandated racial segregation that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

Marshall, Thurgood locked

(1908–1993), civil rights lawyer, first African American Supreme Court justice, architect of the attack on legally mandated racial segregation that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
  • Mark Tushnet

A version of this article originally appeared in The Oxford Companion to United States History.

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