Thurgood Marshall Quotes


... a boy on a man's errand.


Context

Characterizing Martin Luther King Jr.:


Citations

Thurgood Marshall, 1909-1993, U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Quoted in Michael D. Davis and Hunter R. Clark, Thurgood Marshall: Warrior At the Bar, Rebel on the Bench, 1993

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Thurgood Marshall
  • Born: July 2, 1908
  • Died: January 24, 1993
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Judge

Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and civil rights activist 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 v. Board of Education.