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.
