Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908. He studied law at Howard University. His most famous case was winning the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954. In 1934 he began working for the Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He also worked as a legal counsel for the NAACP and won many cases to inspire the Civil Rights movement. In 1961 he was appointed by John F. Kennedy as a judge for the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1965 he was appointed the first African- American U.S. solicitor general, the attorney designated to argue on behalf of the Federal Government before the Supreme Court. In 1962 he became the first African-American Supreme Court justice.