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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.
Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions and Reminiscences. Kennedy, Randall (Foreword by). Chicago: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated – Lawrence Hill Books. ISBN 9781556523861. Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991 (Oxford University Press 1997). Brown v.
After meeting Thurgood Marshall in 1975, Gibson began collecting information on him, which led to the publication of his 2012 book, Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice. [7] [8] He is currently working on his second book on Marshall which will chronicle Marshall's first career from 1935 to 1955 [7] [2]
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Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall, the first African American justice, to the Supreme Court. Johnson appointed Justices Abe Fortas (1965) and Thurgood Marshall (1967) to the Supreme Court of the United States. Johnson anticipated court challenges to his legislative measures in 1965 and thought it advantageous to have a "mole" in the Supreme ...
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Marshall’s first wife, Vivien Burey, died of cancer in 1955. He and Suyat married later that year. She left the NAACP after they wed. But the marriage almost didn’t happen, she said, and not ...
In April 1941, Thurgood Marshall is an NAACP lawyer traveling the country defending people of color who are wrongly accused of crimes because of racial prejudice. Upon his return to his New York City office, he is sent to Bridgeport, Connecticut, to defend Joseph Spell, a chauffeur accused of rape by his white employer, Eleanor Strubing, in a case that has gripped the newspapers.