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President Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall, former NAACP Legal Defense Fund Lead Counsel and the man who successfully argued for desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education, as the first African-American Supreme Court justice in 1967. Marshall retired in 1991 and was succeeded by Clarence Thomas, the second African-American to serve on the Court.
Lead Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and future US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Marshall's best-known case as a lawyer may have been Brown v. Board of Education,(1954), which he argued before the Court twice - in 1952 and 1953.For more information on Brown v. Board of Education, see Related Links, below.
The civil rights organization won a number of important cases against segregation in the 1950s was the NAACP. The acronym stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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