thurgood marshall

     

As U.S. Solicitor General in the 1960s, he won 14 of the 19 cases he argued before the Supreme Court

Trivia about thurgood marshall

  • This Marshall seen here was a groundbreaking attorney and judge
  • He argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court, a body he later joined
  • Appointed by President Johnson, he was the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice
  • He served 24 years on the Supreme Court before retiring in 1991
  • When he retired from the Supreme Court in 1991, Clarence Thomas was appointed to his seat
  • On Oct. 2, 1967 he was sworn in as the first African-American Supreme Court justice
  • A lawyer when he won in 1946, he went on to be the first African-American on the Supreme Court
  • This future justice was chief counsel for the NAACP from 1938 to 1950
  • Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967, he's now its oldest member
  • This great-grandson of a slave served as an associate justice from 1967 to 1991
  • During his tenure LBJ appointed this first African-American Supreme Court justice
  • Clarence Thomas replaced this Supreme Court justice who retired in 1991
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the White House.) June 13, 1967 is a historic day as President Johnson appointed this great-grandson of a slave to the Supreme Court
  • Known as "Mr. Civil Rights", he served as chief counsel of the NAACP prior to taking a seat on the Supreme Court
  • He started "warming the bench" in 1967
  • In 2005 Baltimore/Washington Intl. Airport was renamed for this late Supreme Court justice
  • Outside the Federal Building is a statue of this native son, the first African American on the Supreme Court
  • In 1993 this retired black Supreme Court justice received a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • This 1946 winner was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967
  • This future Supreme Court justice won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the court as a lawyer for the NAACP
  • In 2003 the Postal Service did him justice by honoring him with the stamp seen here
  • In 1933 this future Supreme Court justice was first in his class at Howard University Law School
  • He was the lawyer who won the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case
  • (Judge Hatchett) In 1995 I received from an NAACP branch in Atlanta an award named for this jurist