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Thurgood Marshall Before the Court
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Thurgood Marshall, attorney for the NAACP.
Courtesy of Library of Congress
Photo caption
Thurgood Marshall, attorney for the NAACP.
Courtesy of Library of Congress
Before becoming the first African-American Supreme Court justice in 1967, Thurgood Marshall had made his mark by dismantling separate-but-equal public school segregation through Brown v. Board of Education. Trace his path from lawyer to justice.