PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Lyndon B. Johnson met with Thurgood Marshall to create laws that helped California migrant workers.
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Lyndon B. Johnson and Thurgood Marshall worked together to organize the “March on Washington” in 1963.
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Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall as the first African American to serve as justice of the Supreme Court.
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Lyndon B. Johnson was the lawyer opposite of Thurgood Marshall during the Brown vs. Board of Education case.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Justice Thurgood Marshall: First African American Supreme Court Justice. On June 13, 1967, President Lyndon B. 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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by the Senate on August 30, 1967, following his nomination by President Lyndon B. Johnson on June 13.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S. Marshall was a towering figure who became the nation’s first Black United States Supreme Court Justice.
Detailed explanation-4: -Marshall won a series of court decisions that gradually struck down that doctrine, ultimately leading to Brown v. Board of Education, which he argued before the Supreme Court in 1952 and 1953, finally overturning “separate but equal” and acknowledging that segregation greatly diminished students’ self-esteem.