Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall is one of the most well known people in the history of civil rights in United states and the first African American male Supreme Court Justices. He served for 24 years then retired in 1991 due to advancing years and bad health. He died later in 1993 at the age of 85. He also served as the legal director for the NAACP in the years of 1940 through 1961, a pivotal time for the organization, as changing the policy of racial segregation was one of its goals.

Marshall went college at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. While at college he liked being on the debate team and joined the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He also fell in love with Vivien Burey and was married in 1929. After graduating from Lincoln, Marshall wanted to attend the University of Maryland. However, their law school would not admit him because he was a black male. Instead, Marshall went to law school at Howard University where he finished first in his class, graduating in 1933.
Kennedy. Thurgood Marshall served there until 1965 when Thurgood Marshall became the United States Solicitor General. As Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall represented the federal government before the Supreme