Who replaced Houston as the NAACP's special counsel?
Booker T. Washington
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
Barbara Jordan
Answer
After Charles Houston left the NAACP, Thurgood Marshall was named the organization's special counsel. He continued Houston's work of fighting for civil rights, and eventually became the first African American justice on the Supreme Court.
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Marshall played a significant role in which segregation case?
Who did President John F. Kennedy appoint Marshall to the U.S. Court of Appeals for in 1961?
In 1967, Marshall was nominated to replace which Justice on the Supreme Court?
Which president's appointments made the Supreme Court more conservative, conflicting with Marshall's liberal views?
Which Justice was Marshall's closest ally on the Supreme Court?
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