Thurgood Marshall (July 2 1908 – January 24 1993) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court’s 96th justice and its first African American justice.Before becoming a judge Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education a decision that desegregated public schools.
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Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), Howard University School of Law
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