![]() ![]() One of his great-grandfathers had been taken as a slave from the Congo to Maryland where he was eventually freed. Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland, to William Marshall, railroad porter, who later worked on the staff of Gibson Island Club, a white-only country club and Norma Williams, a school teacher. Through the courts, he ensured that Black people enjoyed the rights and responsibilities of full citizenship. Civil rights and social change came about through meticulous and persistent litigation efforts, at the forefront of which stood Thurgood Marshall and the Legal Defense Fund. ![]() Marshall retired from the bench in 1991 and passed away on January 24, 1993, in Washington D.C. He served as Associate Justice from 1967-1991 after being nominated by President Lyndon B. He was the architect of the legal strategy that ended the country’s official policy of segregation and was the first Black U.S. Marshall founded LDF in 1940 and served as its first Director-Counsel. Thurgood Marshall was an influential leader of the civil rights movement whose tremendous legacy lives on in the pursuit of racial justice. ![]()
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