Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
Abstract
This brief article covers the career of attorney and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, covering his early days as an attorney working for the NAACP, up to his career on the nation's highest court. Of particular interest are the hardships of his early days as a lawyer, as one of only 32 African American lawyers in Maryland in 1935. The key cases during his career are touched upon, along with the legal strategies used to further the cause of civil rights.
Recommended Citation
F. Michael Higginbotham & José F. Anderson, Thurgood Marshall: Legal Strategist For The Civil Rights Movement, 1997 Association for the Study of Afro-American History 14 (November 1996)