Quick Facts
- NAME: Thurgood Marshall
- OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice
- BIRTH DATE: July 02, 1908
- DEATH DATE: January 24, 1993
- EDUCATION: Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, Lincoln University, Howard University School of Law
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Baltimore, Maryland
- PLACE OF DEATH: Bethesda, Maryland
Best Known For
Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall was instrumental in ending legal segregation and became the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice.