Thurgood Marshall

Definition

Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He was the lead attorney in the Brown v. Board of Education case.

Related terms

NAACP: National Association for Advancement of Colored People; civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation.

Civil Rights Act of 1964: Landmark law that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Supreme Court: The highest federal court in United States; has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and state court cases involving issues of federal law.