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Thurgood Marshall Retired from his job in 1991.
President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated former NAACP Legal Defense fund lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the US Supreme Court in 1967.
Thurgood Marshall, former lead counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, was the first African-American to serve on the Court. He was nominated by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967, and retired in 1991.
NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall had argued 32 civil rights cases before the US Supreme Court when President Johnson appointed him Justice in 1967. Marshall retired in 1991.
Thurgood Marshall was the Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. William Marshall was Thurgood Marshall's father and Norma Africa Marshall was his mother.
No. Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American US Supreme Court justice. President Lyndon Johnson nominated Justice Marshall to the Court in 1967, where he served until his retirement in 1991. Prior to serving on the Supreme Court, he was US Solicitor General from 1965-1967. In 1957 attorney Thurgood Marshall founded and became President-Director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, a legal group associated with the NAACP that fought for civil rights. Thurgood Marshall was a brilliant attorney and judge with a passion for civil and human rights. He was able to affect greater change in 24 years on the Supreme Court bench than he could have in four or eight years as US President.
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was one prominent leader of the NAACP legal defense fund. He was the first African American appointed to the US Supreme Court in US history.
Thurgood Marshall was a suprime court justice and argued the case of Brown VS. The Board of Edu.
Thurgood Marshall (the NAACP's chief counsel) argued the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education in front of the supreme court for the plaintiffs and later was appointed as the first African American to serve on the supreme court in the United States by Lyndon Johnson.
Thurgood Marshall. He was nominated by President Johnson in 1965. Thurgood Marshall was from New York and was the lead attorney for the NAACP that argued in the Brown vs Board of Education in 1954, that lead to school desegregation nationwide.