What year was Thurgood Marshall born?
1910
1908
1906
1920
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Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908. He was an American lawyer and jurist who served as the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was a civil rights activist who argued several landmark cases before the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which overturned the doctrine of "separate but equal". He was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon B.
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