Historical Figure
Thurgood Marshall
1908 – 1993
NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney who argued Brown v. Board of Education (1954). First Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1967–1991).
Study in Curriculum
Unit 4
Unit 4.5
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