Thurgood Marshall
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NAACP attorney who argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in the 1952 and 1953 terms, winning the unanimous May 17, 1954 ruling that segregated schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Marshall won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the Supreme Court. He became the first Black Supreme Court Justice in 1967, serving until 1991. On the Constitution's 200th anniversary he said it was "defective from the start" and that its promise had been fulfilled only through struggle.
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Jun 28, 1978 · judicial
Supreme Court Regents of UC v. Bakke limits racial quotas in college admissions but permits diversity rationale
Feb 24, 1976 · court_ruling
Supreme Court rules the government must weigh cost and fairness before stripping any benefit or legal protection from a person
Jan 30, 1976 · court_ruling
Supreme Court rules in Buckley v. Valeo that campaign spending is protected speech
Jul 25, 1974 · judicial
Supreme Court limits cross-district desegregation remedies in Milliken
Jun 30, 1958 · court_decision
Supreme Court protects NAACP membership lists from Alabama officials
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