Thurgood Marshall (Jul. 2, 1908 – Jan. 24, 1993), best known for his victory in Brown v. Board of Education and his role as Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1967-1991. Marshall’s father was a railroad porter and his mother was a school teacher. Here are resources for teaching about the long history of the Brown v. Board case: http://bit.ly/1brzK4x Also born this day in history, Medgar Evers (1925) and Patrice Lumumba (1925).

Posted by danetteoneal1 on July 4, 2015
Posted in: History Facts, Public Policy. Leave a comment

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Photo: Autherine Lucy and NAACP attorneys Marshall and Arthur Shore outside Federal Court in Birmingham during Lucy’s struggle to desegregate the University of Alabama. February, 1956.

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