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Marshall, Thurgood
     
Marshall, Thurgood
(1908-93) a US lawyer who became the first black member of the Supreme Court in 1967. When he was a lawyer he won many important legal cases to help black US citizens get equal rights, such as the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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