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Thurgood Marshall

United States, 1908 - 1993

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Marshall was a civil rights attorney and was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson as an associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court where he served 1967 to 1991. He led the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education which ended the “separate but equal’ doctrine in the nation’s schools.