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Thurgood Marshall (2 Juli 1908 – 24 Januari 1993) adalah seorang pengacara Amerika dan aktivis hak-hak sipil yang pernah menjabat sebagai Hakim di Mahkamah Agung Amerika Serikat dari Oktober 1967 sampai Oktober 1991.
Thoroughgood " Thurgood " Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice.
- Raised in Prosperous Home
- Joined NAACP Staff
- Helped End School Segregation
- Named to Supreme Court
- Liberal Voice in Changing Court
- Selected Writings
- Sources
Marshall’s work on behalf of civil rights spanned five-and-a-half decades and included the history-making Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that led to integration of the nation’s public schools in 1954. As an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Marshall fought to have blacks admitted to then-segre...
The relationship settled him down, and he graduated cum laudefrom Lincoln in 1930. From there he moved to Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he enrolled in the small, all-black law school. The course supervisor was Charles H. Houston, a demanding but inspiring instructor who instilled in his students a burning desire to change segregated ...
The limelight found Marshall in 1954, when he led the legal team that challenged public school segregation in the courts. The case advanced to the U.S. Supreme Court and resulted in a landmark ruling that ended a half-century of segregated schooling. Remembering those days when he worked on Brown vs. Board of Education, Marshall told Ebony that the...
Against stiff opposition even in his own (Democratic) party, President Lyndon Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court in 1967. Marshall’s nomination was opposed most violently by four Southern senators on the Judiciary Committee, but nevertheless he was confirmed by a vote of 69 to 11. He was sworn in and took his seat on October 2, 1967, a...
During the more than a decade that Republicans controlled the White House, one by one, retiring judges were replaced with more conservative successors. For many years Marshall and Brennan teamed as the high court’s true liberals, and Marshall was gravely disappointed when his colleague was forced to retire. Marshall remained the lone outspoken libe...
Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences, Mark V. Tushnet, ed., Lawrence Hill Books, 2001. Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings, J. Clay Smith, Jr., ed., University of PennsylvaniaPress, 2003.
Books
Ball, Howard, Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America, Crown, 1998. Gibson, Karen Bush, Thurgood Marshall, Bridgestone, 2002. Williams, Juan, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, Time, 1998.
Periodicals
Ebony, May 1990. Newsweek, September 21, 1987; August 6, 1990. New York Times, November 23, 1946; April 6, 1951; January 25, 1993. People, July 7, 1986. —Mark Kram and Sara Pendergast
Feb 7, 2019 · CNN — The great-grandson of a slave worked his way through law school, opened his own practice, represented the NAACP and argued more than two dozen cases in front of the Supreme Court. Then took...
Thurgood Marshall was nominated to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on June 13, 1967 to fill the seat being vacated by Tom C. Clark.
Thurgood Marshall (1908 – 1993) was a civil rights lawyer and the first African-American appointed to the US Supreme Court Justice. As a lawyer, he championed civil rights and was the lead lawyer in the pivotal Supreme Court Case Brown vs Board of Education, Topeka (1954).
Thurgood Marshall, (born July 2, 1908, Baltimore, Md., U.S.—died Jan. 24, 1993, Bethesda, Md.), U.S. jurist and civil-rights advocate. He received his law degree from Howard University in 1933. From 1936 he worked for the NAACP, becoming its chief counsel in 1940.
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