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2 de may. de 2024 · The program is named in honor of Supreme Court Justice, legendary civil rights attorney and LDF founder Thurgood Marshall, and iconic civil rights litigator, former LDF attorney, and the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge, Constance Baker Motley.
Hace 6 días · He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought for civil rights, leading the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Marshall was a prominent figure in the movement to end racial segregation in American public schools.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Clarence Thomas
Hace 5 días · With the rise of private corporate litigators such as the NAACP to bear the expense, civil suits became the pattern in modern civil rights litigation, and the public face of the Civil Rights Movement. The NAACP's Legal department, headed by Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall, undertook a campaign spanning several decades ...
- February 12, 1909; 114 years ago
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Hace 5 días · Thurgood Marshall, lawyer and civil rights activist who was the first African American member of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving as an associate justice from 1967 to 1991. As an attorney, he successfully argued before the Supreme Court the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
19 de abr. de 2024 · Marshall, Thurgood. Thurgood Marshall - Picturs; Online Sources: Thurgood Marshall; Book Sources: Thurgood Marshall; Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP; Find Books; Parks, Rosa; Randolph, Asa Philip; Rustin, Bayard; Terrell, Mary Church; Till, Emmett; Washington, Booker T. Wells, Ida B. X, Malcolm; Miscellaneous; Quick ...
6 de may. de 2024 · The murder of NAACP field director Medgar Evers in 1963 gave the group national prominence, likely contributing to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. In the 1980s the NAACP publicized opposition to apartheid policies in South Africa. The organization moved its headquarters from New York City to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1986.
4 de may. de 2024 · The Spingarn Medal is the highest honor of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Since 1915, it has been awarded annually for the highest achievement of a living African American in the preceding year or years. The twofold purpose of the award, according to the NAACP, is to call the attention of the American ...
