Question

Thurgood Marshall _____. (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)

A) Signed the Southern Manifesto.
B) Was a lawyer for the NAACP.
C) Was the first black justice of the Supreme Court.
D) Argued Plessy v. Ferguson before the Supreme Court.

Answer 1

Thurgood Marshall
c. was the first black justice of the Supreme Court

Answer 2

The correct answer is C) was the first Black justice of the Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall was the first Black justice of the Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshal (1908-1993) was a lawyer that is best renowned for being the first African American justice of the Supreme Court. He studied at the University of Maryland and graduated in 1933. During his life as a lawyer, he supported the black’s civil rights and was part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP). The most famous case of Brow was in 1954: Brown V. Board of Education. He became a justice of the Supreme Court in 1966, after being nominated by Lyndon B. Johnson.