Thurgood Marshall: Supreme Court Justice

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“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.”

Justice Marshall, the first African American justice appointed to the United States Supreme Court, also argued the Brown v. Board of Education case in front of the Supreme Court. Justice Marshall graduated from Lincoln University and graduated top in his class from Howard University’s law school. President Lyndon Johnson appointed Marshall to the post of Solicitor General in 1965, and then in 1967, President Johnson appointed him to the U.S. Supreme Court. As Solicitor General, Justice Marshall participated in the famous Miranda v. Arizona case. When Justice Marshall passed away in 1993, he lay in state in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court.

For more information:

Justice Marshall on Biography.com 

Justice Marshall at History Channel 

Justice Marshall from the Oyez site 

Justice Marshall from U.S. Courts.gov 

Borrow books about Thurgood Marshall from the Sullivan University Library.

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Sources:

Miranda v. Arizona. (n.d.). Oyez. Retrieved February 13, 2018, from https://www.oyez.org/cases/1965/759

Thurgood Marshall Quotes. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved January 25, 2018, from BrainyQuote.com Web site: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/thurgood_marshall_821973

United States Courts. (2018) Justice Thurgood Marshall Profile-Brown v. Board of Education Reenactment. Retrieved from: http://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/justice-thurgood-marshall-profile-brown-v-board