Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Happy birthday, Justice Thurgood Marshall
It is the birthday of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908), the first African-American appointed the the nation's highest judicial body. While he was a lawyer, Marshall successfully argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court in 1954. That case led to the end of racial segregation in public schools. Marshall was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1967. Marshall's writing was collected as Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions and Reminiscences (2001).
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