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(Feb. 08, 1993) Died:Thurgood Marshall
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 23
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<p> DIED. Thurgood Marshall, 84, retired U.S. Supreme Court
Justice; in Bethesda, Maryland. Born in Baltimore, Marshall
graduated first in his class at Howard Law School and sued
successfully to integrate the University of Maryland law school,
which had rejected him because he was black. He won 29 of 32
cases he argued before the Supreme Court, including Brown v.
Board of Education, which declared an end to public school
segregation, and in 1967 he became the Supreme Court's first
black Justice. Marshall was a voice for minorities and women and
an advocate for affirmative action and abortion rights. "I am
not free," he said upon retiring in 1991, having judged a nation
only to find it still wanting.
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