Thurgood Marshall

Marshall's Life
Thurgood Marshall was born in July of 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the great grandson and grandson of slaves. His mom was a teacher In Maryland. He went to a high school named after Fredrick Douglas in Maryland. He was third in his class and graduated a year early. At one time, he was the Chief Council for the NAACP, short for, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Marshall's Supreme Court Job
Before he was on the Supreme Court, he was a lawyer that won the most cases against them. One of the biggest cases he won was Brown VS The Board Of Education He was the first African-American Supreme Court justice. Justice Thurgood Marshall served on the Supreme Court of the United States for twenty-eight years. He started the Supreme Court of the United States in 1967 and ending in 1991. Just two years after his retirement, he died in 1993 in Bethesda, Maryland.