Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Serving from 1967 to 1991, Marshall had previously argued civil rights cases before the Supreme Court, including 1954's Brown v. Public Education which ended segregation in public schools.
==References==
* When Miles delivers a poem mentioning notable African Americans in Sesame Street Episode 3578, he includes "Justice Thurgood Marshall and Frederick Douglass, who helped make things right."
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