Growing up in a segregated Maryland, Thurgood Marshall knew all too well what racism was. He would get a law school degree and become the primary civil rights lawyer for the NAACP. Marshall would argue, often successfully, many civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the most famous being Brown v. Board of Education. He would later be nominated by President Kennedy as a judge to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, being later appointed by President Johnson as the first African American as U.S. Solicitor. Marshall was then elevated by President Johnson to the U.S. Supreme Court as its first African American Supreme Court Justice. So let’s learn about this legal trailblazer and his fight for racial equality.
"The Legal Trailblazer: Justice Thurgood Marshall and the Fight for Racial Equality," is part of the Black History Month Lecture Series, an annual program of the Live the Dream: Our Declaration of Unity committee. Lectures are delivered each February by Eric Guttag at MidPointe Library in West Chester, 9363 Centre Pointe Drive.
