Thurgood Marshall was born july 2,1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. thurgood's mother was a teacher and his father was a headwaiter and country club steward.thurgood graduated from lincoln university to receieve his bachelor's degree. after that he attended howard university's law school were he graduated with honors. when he pasted the bar test he practiced in baltimore for eight years. he also was serving also as a counsel for the NAACP. in 1939 he became director of the NAACP legal defense fund. a year earlier he been admitted to practice before the u.s supreme court. winning 29 out of 32 of his court cases thurgood marshall became known as america's outstanding civil rights lawyer. one of his most famous court cases was brown vs. broad of education which outlawed segregation in public schools. in 1961 president John Kennedy nominated marshall for judge of the second court of appeals he was confirmed by the senate a year later. in 1967 thurgood marshall was nominated for judge on the supreme court . he was the first african american to do so.
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