Thurgood Marshall

July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993

Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991, the Court's first African-American justice. As a leading civil rights attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, he argued Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which struck down school segregation, winning 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the Court. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1967.

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