Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Md. in 1908. His grandfather and great grandfather were slaves. After attending Lincoln University, and Howard University Law School, he became a lawyer.
He was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), a decision that desegregated public schools.
In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson nominated him as an Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court, making him the first Black person to be so named.
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