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How This Court Case Won Equal Education For Black Students | Thurgood Marshall (2020x115)

Air date: Aug 29, 2020

Thurgood Marshall, perhaps best known as the first African-American Supreme Court justice, played an instrumental role in promoting racial equality during the civil rights movement. As a practicing attorney, Marshall argued a record-breaking 32 cases before the Supreme Court, winning 29 of them. This included the Brown v. Board of Education case.