USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1935, Marshall’s first major court victory came in Murray v. Pearson, when he, alongside his mentor Houston, successfully sued the University of Maryland for denying a Black applicant admission to its law school because of his race.

Detailed explanation-2: -He did not attend the University of Maryland Law School in Baltimore because of a segregationist admissions policy. Instead, he attended law school at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and served as the valedictorian of his class.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court’s first African-American justice.

Detailed explanation-4: -Johnson nominated distinguished civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall had already made his mark in American law, having won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court, most notably the landmark case Brown v.

Detailed explanation-5: -Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court and its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy’s retirement in 2018. Since Stephen Breyer’s retirement in 2022, Thomas has been the oldest justice.