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Thurgood Marshall Biography
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Biography: Life of Thurgood Marshall
Born 1908, Died 1993
Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Howard University Law School as valedictorian in1933.
Thurgood Marshall began his career representing civil rights activists. In 1938 he became a counsel for the NAACP and in 1940 became chief counsel for the organization. Thurgood Marshall won 29 of 32 of his major cases during his twenty-three years with the NAACP. His work with the NAACP concentrated on segregation, with a strategy for eventually eliminating segregation in schools. His most famous case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, in 1954 declared segregation of public schools to be unconstitutional.
In 1961 Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by President John Kennedy. He served in this position until 1965, none of the opinions which he wrote for the Court being overturned on appeal.
Lyndon B. Johnson named Thurgood Marshall United States Solicitor General in 1965. In 1967 Johnson nominated him to the United States Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall was the first African American elevated to this position.
As the United States Supreme Court became more conservative, the liberal Thurgood Marshall gradually became isolated. In 1991 Thurgood Marshall retired from the Court because of ill health. Thurgood Marshall died on January 24, 1993 from heart failure.
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