Thurgood Marshall
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Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer for the NAACP and later the first African-American United States Supreme Court Justice. He is most remembered for having filed and won Brown v. Board of Education.
Justice Marshall was a reliably liberal voice on the Supreme Court. It is said that he attempted to wait to retire until a Democrat was in the White House; however, during the administration of George H. W. Bush he took ill and passed away. Not wanting to seem racist, Bush then appointed Clarence Thomas to the position.
