Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshallwas an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth2 July 1908
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
Thurgood Marshall quotes about
clause equal protection require
The equal protection clause does not require proportional representation, ... meaningless ballots.
ku-klux-klan too-much prejudice
The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.
patriotic justice feelings
Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive]
challenges black-racism discrimination
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
practice historical steps
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.