Why Thurgood Marshall?
Click here to see how to view the site Thurgood Marshall is our choice to be the topic of our Seevak website. His advancements in the field of civil rights for African-Americans were outstanding. His long career included time as the chief counsel for the NAACP, then as federal judge and solicitor general, and finally as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. As an NAACP lawyer during World War II he was the director and chief counsel for the organization. He won many cases against the U.S. military that allowed African-Americans to become officers in the armed forces for the first time. His most famous victory was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. This renowned case eliminated the basis for the separate but equal standard that had previously been in effect across the nation. Other cases that he prosecuted dealt with exclusionary practices of African-Americans in primary elections, and private agreements to restrict land sales to African-Americans. He also forced the des
