AFRICAN AMERICAN TO SUPREME COURT

Chief Justice Earl Warren swore in Thurgood Marshall, the first
Black justice
of the U.S. Supreme Court. As chief counsel for
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People in the 1940s and ’50s.

Marshall was the architect and executor of the legal strategy
that ended the era of official racial segregation.

 

Pictured with the U.S. Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall, in the front row at the far right, became an Associate Justice in 1965.  A survey in 1999 showed that black political scientists listed Marshall as one of the ten greatest African-American leaders in history.  (U.S. Library of Congress/Public Domain)


Profile: Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) – Black Art Story
Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall
(July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993)

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