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This is when he was born.
1908 – Born July 2 at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. -
Thurgood Marshall got married
He got married to Vivian Burey. This happen the year he is supposed to gradute from college. -
He gradutes from college
He gradute from college in 1930 he gradute from Linclon Unversity -
He gets a law degee
Receives law degree from Howard University and begins private practice in Baltimore, Maryland. -
His first case
Working with Charles Houston, wins first major civil rights case. -
He is a assistant
Becomes assistant special counsel for NAACP in New York. -
The case in New York.
Won case for integration of schools in Hillburn, New York. -
Argue was sucessful
Successfully argues Smith v. Allwright, overthrowing the South's "white primary". -
He wins in the superme court.
Wins Shelley v. Kraemer, in which Supreme Court strikes down legality of racially restrictive covenants. -
Superme court.
Wins Supreme Court victories in two graduate-school integration cases. -
Landmark case
Wins Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, landmark case that demolishes legal basis for segregation in America. -
Civil Right
Defends civil rights demonstrators, winning Supreme Court victory in Garner v. Louisiana; nominated to Second Circuit Court of Appeals by President John F. Kennedy. -
All of his case.
Appointed United States Solicitor General by President Lyndon B. Johnson; wins 14 of the 19 cases he argues for the government (1965–1967). -
African American
Becomes first African American named to U.S. Supreme Court (1967–1991). -
He retires
Retires from the Supreme Court. -
Thurgood Marshall when he was dead
This Thurgood Marshall when he die. He died January 24 1993.Marshall died of heart failure in Bethesda, Maryland.
