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Thoroughgood "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.
The trial of Joseph Spell was a 1940 legal case - State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell - in which an African-American chauffeur [1] was accused of raping Eleanor Strubing, a wealthy white woman who was his boss. [2] The accusations and trial made sensational headlines.
He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall. [1] He was involved in numerous crucial cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, which ended segregation in public schools. [1] [2] In all, he argued 40 civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and won almost all of them. [3]
Thurgood Marshall, the lead lawyer of the NAACP, pressed the Justice Department and the FBI to initiate a civil rights and domestic violence investigation into the beatings. Marshall convinced the Justice Department that the beatings violated the men's rights, and the FBI dispatched agents to investigate.
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America is a 2012 nonfiction book by the American author Gilbert King. It is a history of the attorney Thurgood Marshall 's defense of four young black men in Lake County, Florida , who were accused in 1949 of raping a white woman.
The statue of American civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall will replace the bust of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger The post Statue of Thurgood Marshall to replace bust of racist Supreme ...
Pearson on June 25, 1935, as part of its widening social program, and retained Belford Lawson to litigate the case. By the time the case reached court, Murray was represented by Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall of the Baltimore National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [3] Houston and Marshall used Murray v
The Columbia Peace and Justice Initiative responds to historian's opinion about its proposal to erect a Thurgood Marshall statue on East 8th Street.