#TBT: Thurgood Marshall Makes History

 

     Thurgood Marshall is arguably among the most significant individuals, nonetheless African-Americans, in U.S. history. An executive of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, he argued numerous major cases as an attorney, including, successfully, Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that the policy of segregation in schools was unconstitutional.

     Appointed to numerous positions by Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, on August 30th, 1967, Marshall became the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice, serving until October 1st, 1991. He would be succeeded by Clarence Thomas, perhaps his polar opposite, who sexually assaulted Anita Hill and hates everything that moves. Marshall died on January 24th, 1993, at the age of 84.