Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 to January 24, 1993) was an American lawyer who was appointed as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1967. He was the first African-American to hold the position and served for 24 years, until 1991.
Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and judge, and the Court's first African American justice. He served in the Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991. Marshall is also well-known for being the lawyer who argued the case Brown v. Board of Education and for his work with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
