Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908.

      He was a Civil Rights lawyer who avidly believed one of the best ways to bring about change is to change the laws. In the years between 1938 and 1961, he represented 30 plus cases. He won 29 of those before the supreme court.

       One of the most important cases he had was the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954. The case was to end segregation in public schools. "Separate but equal" made segregation considered fair, but in reality, segregated schools were unequal. White schools were far more privileged than black, which were poor and overcrowded.  Marshall argued that "separate but equal" was a was a myth to disguise segregation and that if all students are equal, why separate them? The supreme court agreed that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

          Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American supreme court justice in American history.

           He died on January 24, 1993.