Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer who became the first African American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
As chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, he won Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in public schools. He served on the Court for 24 years.
Key Facts
- Lived: 1908 to 1993
- Won Brown v. Board of Education in 1954
- Served as U.S. Solicitor General starting in 1965
- Supreme Court Justice: 1967 to 1991
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