Thurgood Marshall was one of the original forces behind the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (the
NAACP), one of the organizations that helped to advance the rights
of African Americans in the 20th century. His pursuit of civil
rights reached a high point when, as a lawyer, he helped the NAACP
win Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that ended
racial segregation in education in American public schools.
Afterward, Thurgood was appointed as a judge in the United States
Court of Appeals, then as the first black United States solicitor
general and, finally, the first black justice of the United States
Supreme Court.
Perseverance is a quality that Thurgood had in abundance. The
grandson of a freed slave and the son of a waiter and a
schoolteacher, he managed to obtain an excellent education despite
the racial segregation of the American school system. Early in his
career as a champion of civil rights, he found it hard to make a
living, and he endured not only legal setbacks but also threats on
his life. Eventually, Thurgood achieved high office, but even as a
Supreme Court justice he continued to fight for the rights of those
whom society continued to regard as inferior: blacks, women, and
poor people.
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