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Thurgood Marshall


(1908-1993)

Lawyer/activist/ argued Brown v Board of Education/ first Black Supreme Court Justice


“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps… – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”


Earlier Event: February 11
Wilma Rudolph
Later Event: February 13
Marian Anderson