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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.
[17] [20] [21] Marshall also faced tough quizzing from these opponents on minor historical facts about the Constitution and other matters. [17] For instance, in what Time characterized as a "Yahoo-type hazing", Thurmond asked Marshall over sixty questions about various minor aspects of the history of certain constitutional provisions. [14]
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Thurgood Marshall was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. People and institutions etc. named after Thurgood Marshall are: Thurgood Marshall Jr., an American lawyer, son of Thurgood Marshall; Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
In 1964, Ali failed the U.S. Armed Forces qualifying test because his writing and spelling skills were sub-standard. With the escalation of the Vietnam War, the test standards were lowered in November 1965 [4] and Ali was reclassified as 1-A in February 1966, [5] [6] which meant he was now eligible for the draft and induction into the U.S. Army.
Marshall was born on August 12, 1956, in New York City. He is the son of Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and Cecilia Suyat Marshall, a Filipino American who was Marshall's second wife after his first wife died of lung cancer. [9]
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The Thurgood Marshall College fund supports 55 schools and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, charitable organization, which means it does not pay taxes on its income. [ 6 ] TMCF was granted $50 million in 2015 by Apple , [ 7 ] $26.5 million in 2017 by the Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries , [ 8 ] and $6 million by The Boeing Company in 2018.