Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore ... Soon after, Marshall became a lawyer for the NAACP in New York. In that role, he traveled throughout dangerous areas of the South investigating ...

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Marshall’s courtroom campaign was becoming the most important aspect of the NAACP’s work - and the most visible. JOSE ANDERSON, PROFESSOR OF LAW: Thurgood and Walter both had egos ...

During the Kagan hearing, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee took a pounding from the usual suspects for daring to suggest that Thurgood Marshall ... as the NAACP LDF’s chief lawyer….

Son of a dining-car waiter and schoolteacher and also counsel for the NAACP beginning in 1934, Thurgood Marshall successfully argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which ...

In 1940, Thurgood Marshall is a young lawyer for the NAACP who criss-crosses the country defending innocent African-Americans from unjust indictments in court. His latest case is in Bridgeport ...

Rockland County legislators voted 16-0 to relocate the statue of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American member of the ...

And as head of the NAACP, he hired a young Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston to lead the organization’s Legal Defense Fund. That initiative developed the legal strategy that ...

EXCLUSIVE: The name Walter White isn't as familiar to Americans as those of Thurgood Marshall or W.E.B. Du Bois ... The civil rights activist led the NAACP for a quarter of a century, helping ...

Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. He won the Brown versus Board of Education court case dismantling segregation and reshaping civil rights law. Thanks to ...

Attendees could learn about Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks ... in civil rights to innovations in science and technology, the NAACP Rockford Branch says its important to celebrate Black history ...