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Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court Justice. Before that, he was instrumental in challenging segregation in the South. As a lawyer, he successfully argued against it in the seminal Brown v. Board of Education case.

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Thurgood Marshall changed history by being a lawyer for Oliver Brown and others in the Brown versus the board of education case. This case made it illegal for white schools to not allow black people.

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