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As the title suggests, the movie is about Thurgood Marshall, the iconic civil rights ... in one of his less publicized cases—an African American chauffeur accused of rape and attempted murder ...
The 96th Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States was its first African-American one, Thurgood Marshall. The great-grandson of a slave born in modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Before he became the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall was already a powerful civil rights pioneer: He argued 32 cases in front of the Supreme Court in his ...
Fifty years ago, Thurgood Marshall, the grandson of an enslaved man who had become one of the country’s most famous litigators, was about to be sworn in as the first African American justice on ...
By Courtney Idasetima Thurgood Marshall is most notably known for ... as well as being the first African-American sworn in to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. But he was involved in other ...
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to occupy a seat at the highest court of the land. This great achievement was the climax of a legal career that reshaped American society.
February is Black History Month. This month we take the opportunity to celebrate the life and legacy of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American on the United States Supreme Court.
Fifty-six years ago, on August 30, 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. During his nearly 25 years on the Supreme Court ...
One of its former students, Justice Thurgood Marshall--an American civil rights icon and the U.S. Supreme Court's first African American justice. Marshall was a student at the school from 1914 to ...
On April 24, just under a month before the official anniversary on May 17, the Thurgood Marshall Center Trust and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture will ...
On the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ... class, which kicked off this month, recognized Thurgood Marshall, the first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice.
February is Black History Month and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continue to salute the contributions of African Americans in labor with the help of Bossier Parish high school students. Thurgood Marshall was ...