Oliver Leon Brown was an American welder and episcopal pastor who was the plaintiff in the landmark 1954 United States Supreme Court case Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al. I
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Thurgood Marshall
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Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-Amer
Oliver Brown (American activist)
…California Governor Earl Warren, who set a schedule for the cases to be reargued in late 1953. After several months of oral arguments, led by attorney Thurgood Marshall, who was director and counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (and would later be a Supreme Court justice himself), on May 17, 1954, Chief Justice…
Official portrait, 1976
Marshall in the Colored High and Training School yearbook, 1925
Marshall c. 1935–1940
NAACP leaders Henry L. Moon, Roy Wilkins, Herbert Hill, and Thurgood Marshall in 1956