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The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies

From the earliest years of European settlement in North America, whites enslaved and oppressed black people. Although the Civil War finally brought about the abolition...

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Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court

President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court. Marshall was the first African American justice to serve on the Court.

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Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993), an African American lawyer and US Supreme Court justice, was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Marshall attended a segregated high school in Baltimore and then went to Lincoln University, where the student body was all black and the faculty all white. Because the University of Maryland Law School refused to accept African Americans, Marshall’s mother pawned her engagement and wedding rings so he could attend Howard Law School. With the legislative and executive branches of government largely...