http://thekulturekidz.com Black History from A-Z Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:33:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 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 Continue reading →]]> Judge 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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