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  • Born in Baltimore, Maryland July 2, 1908
  • Denied from attending University of Maryland Law School because of race in 1930
  • Grandson of a Slave
  • Went to Lincoln University, where his classmates included Langston Hughes, Cab Calloway, and future President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah and graduating in 1930
  • Married Vivian Burey.
  • Went to Howard University Law School and graduated at 1933 with a Law Degree
  • Studied law under Charles Hamilton Houston, the new Dean, and learned the importance to fight for rights
  • First major court case, ironically, was a black student fighting for admission to University of Maryland, Marshall won the case in 1933
  • Won in the historical case: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka which ended segregation in public schools 1954
  • Became Chief Counsel of the NAACP
  • Became a Supreme Court Justice (Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson)
  • Became U.S. Solicitor General (Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson)
  • Appointed to U.S. Court of Appeals by John F. Kennedy
  • Graduated from Howard University at the top of his class
  • First African American Supreme Court Justice
  • Retired in 1991

Died of heart failure on Sunday, January 24, 1993 at 84 years old

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