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Thurgood Marshall
Title: Thurgood Marshall
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore. He grew up in Baltimore and
graduated from an all-black high school at the age of 16. He then attended Lincoln University in
Chester County, Pennsylvania, which is the nation’s oldest historically black college. After
graduating with honors from Lincoln in 1930, Marshall applied to the University of Maryland
School of law, which rejected him because of his race. Instead, he studied at Howard University
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…showed last 75 words of 664 total…segregation in America
-1961 Defends civil rights demonstrators, winning Supreme Circuit Court victory in Garner v. Louisiana; nominated to Second Court of Appeals by President J.F. Kennedy
-1961 Appointed circuit judge, makes 112 rulings, all of them later upheld by Supreme Court (1961-1965)
-1965 Appointed U.S. solicitor general by President Lyndon Johnson; wins 14 of the 19 cases he argues for the government (1965-1967)
-1967 Becomes first African American elevated to U.S. Supreme Court
-1991 Retires from the Supreme Court
-1993 Dies at 84
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