What was Thurgood Marshall best known for? Why did Thurgood Marshall change his name?

Late Thurgood Marshall was best known for being a civil rights lawyer who fought the likes of Jim Crow.

He became America’s first Black United States Supreme Court Justice.

Why did Thurgood Marshall change his name?

Marshall’s original name was “Thoroughgood Marshall”, but he changed it to “Thurgood” because his friends made fun of his first name.

Who Was Thurgood Marshall?

Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer and jurist who became an “associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991.”

Marshall was a graduate of Lincoln University and the Howard University School of Law.

Marshall who worked at the NAACP at the time, also operated his private law firm in Baltimore.

Marshall made history when he became the Supreme Court’s first African-American justice, having fought consistently for civil rights and against racial discrimination.

When he was alive, Marshall won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the Supreme Court.

Marshall was later appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the Supreme Court in 1967.

He retired from the Supreme Court in 1991, and passed away in 1993.