Question

What was one of Thurgood Marshall’s major achievements?

organizing the Montgomery bus boycott
founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
winning the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case
defending the Little Rock Nine

Answer 1

In 1950, as an attorney for the NAACP, Thurgood Marshall brought two important cases before the United States Supreme Court, each involving racial segregation at the college level. He successfully convinced the Court that both the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma had violated the Constitution by denying fair treatment to black applicant Heman Sweatt and student George McLaurin, respectively. Later, in 1954, Marshall and the NAACP pulled together five class action lawsuits under the title Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al., each calling for an end to segregation at the pre-college level.