PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
PRESIDENT LYNDON B JOHNSON
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being the first African American judge on the Supreme Court
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being the lawyer in the Brown v. Board of Education case
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studying law at the University of Georgia
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fighting for equal rights fo rAfrican Americans
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Detailed explanation-1: -He is best known for arguing the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional in public schools.
Detailed explanation-2: -Marshall founded LDF in 1940 and served as its first Director-Counsel. He was the architect of the legal strategy that ended the country’s official policy of segregation and was the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice. He served as Associate Justice from 1967-1991 after being nominated by President Lyndon B.
Detailed explanation-3: -The most notable achievement in Thurgood Marshall’s life was becoming the first African American to serve as a justice on the United States Supreme Court. Marshall was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by President John F. Kennedy in 1961.
Detailed explanation-4: -Born in Baltimore, Marshall was rejected from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1930 because he was Black. Soon after his graduation from Howard University Law School, where he was ranked first in his class, Marshall joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.