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Vor 5 Tagen · 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.
Vor 6 Tagen · Board of Education decision the most profound ruling in the Supreme Court’s 235-year history. Much of Marshall’s winning argument was rooted in referencing “Black Codes,” a series of restrictive laws created in 1865 to limit or stop the economic, political, social, and educational freedom of enslaved Black people and their ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) had a storied career, first as an attorney whose courtroom successes earned him the nickname “Mr. Civil Rights,” next as a federal judge, and finally as the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
13. Juni 2024 · Thurgood Marshall was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson on June 13, 1967. On August 30, 1967 Marshall was confirmed by a Senate vote of 69-11 to become the first African American Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Vor 5 Tagen · Thurgood Marshall, the legal architect of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the nation’s first African American justice, worried that this new political environment would lead to an erosion of the rights of the accused.
13. Juni 2024 · President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated the first Black American, then-Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall, to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying it was “the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place.” But his push for a legal career began with disappointment.
Vor 4 Tagen · On March 8, 1956, Marshall visited the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to talk about his work, the many cases of segregation in Illinois, and the murder of the young Emmett Till. The 14-year-old Chicago boy was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after offending a white woman. Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American justice on the US Supreme Court ...
