Order for Appearance of Thurgood Marshall, Who Argued the Case for School Desegregation [Brown v. Board of Education]

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Description

As legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1934-1961, Thurgood Marshall argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court and prevailed in 29 of them. In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court, where he served as Associate Justice until his retirement in 1991.

This is an order for the attorney Thurgood Marshall to appear before the United States Supreme Court in 1951 in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. As an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1934 to 1961, Marshall was one of the attorneys fighting for school desegregation. In 1967, Marshall became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he retired in 1991.

Citation

This primary source comes from the Records of the Supreme Court of the United States.

National Archives Identifier: 301670

Full Citation: Order for Appearance of Thurgood Marshall, Who Argued the Case for School Desegregation [Brown v. Board of Education]; 12/3/1951; Records of the Supreme Court of the United States, Record Group 267. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/order-for-appearance-of-thurgood-marshall-who-argued-the-case-for-school-desegregation-brown-v-board-of-education/, March 25, 2026]

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