Welcome to the liturgist podcast.

You are now listening to Black History is American History.

I'm William Matthews.

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I'm Nikki Black.

And I'm Andra Henry.

Today's moment in Black History, Thurgood Marshall.

Thurgood Marshall was born July 2nd, 1908 and was an American lawyer who served as Associate

Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991.

Marshall was the court's first African American justice.

Prior to his judicial service, he successfully argued several cases before the Supreme

Court, including Brown versus Board of Education.

Even in Baltimore, Maryland, Marshall graduated from the Howard University School of Law

in 1933.

He established a private legal practice in Baltimore before founding the NAACP Legal

Defense and Educational Fund, where he served as Executive Director.

In that position, he argued several cases before the Supreme Court, including Smith versus

Allright, Shelley versus Kramer, and Brown versus Board of Education, which held that

racial segregation and public education as a violation of the equal protection clause.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals

for the Second Circuit.

Four years later, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall as the United States

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