TheKultureKidz.com » T http://thekulturekidz.com african american history from a-z Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:57:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) http://thekulturekidz.com/2008/01/thurgood-marshall/ http://thekulturekidz.com/2008/01/thurgood-marshall/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:06:33 +0000 admin http://aakulturezone.com/kidz/?p=24 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> thurgood-marshallJudge Thurgood Marshall was a great lawyer and Civil Rights leader. As chief counsel for the NAACP, he won the historic Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case. This unanimous 1954 decision laid the groundwork for school desegregation. In 1967, Marshall was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court by President Johnson. This made him the first African American ever appointed to the Supreme Court

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