Thurgood marshall biography information

(1908-1993)

Who Was Thurgood Marshall?

Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer who was appointed as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1967.

He was the first African American to hold the position and served for 24 years, until 1991. Marshall studied law at Howard University. As counsel to the NAACP, he utilized the judiciary to champion equality for African Americans.

Thurgood marshall biography information

In 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of Educationcase, in which the Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools.

Early Life and Family

Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, William Marshall, was the grandson of an enslaved person who worked as a steward at an exclusive club, and his mother, Norma, was a kindergarten teacher.

One of William's favorite pastimes was to listen to cases at the local courthouse before returning home to rehash the lawyers' arguments with his sons.

Thurgood later recalled, "Now you want to know how I got