Thurgood Marshall, an American associate judge of the Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991, was a civil rights attorney and jurist who was born on July 2, 1908, and died on January 24, 1993.
He was the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court. He led the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as a civil rights lawyer before entering the judiciary. Marshall played a key role in the effort to abolish racial segregation in educational institutions. The Supreme Court’s famous 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which rejected the separate but equal doctrine and declared segregation in public education to be unconstitutional, was the result of 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he successfully argued before the Court.
Thurgood Marshall Children: Meet Thurgood Marshall, Jr. And John W. Marshall
Prior to his death in 1993, Thurgood Marshall and his wife Cecilia Suyat Marshall were the parents of two sons. John W. Marshall and Thurgood Marshall Jr. are the offspring of the late Supreme Court justice.
Born in 1956, Thurgood Marshall Jr. followed in his father’s professional footsteps by going into law. He was really assigned to a position at the White House during the Clinton Presidency, working as the president’s assistant and cabinet secretary from 1997 to 2001. As a member of the 1994 presidential delegation to Nelson Mandela’s inauguration, he was additionally chosen by former president Clinton. Thurgood Marshall Jr., Thurgood’s older brother, is two years older than John W. Marshall.