Thurgood  Marshall

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Thurgood Marshall Biography
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Thurgood Marshall was and still is well known for his legal counsel for the NAACP, or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was also the first black Supreme Court justice in the United States. Most recently, Marshall was well known for his criticism of the courts, and this was after he retired. A complete biography of Thurgood Marshall begins with his childhood in Maryland, his education, and his work with the NAACP.

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Thurgood Marshall (http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/thurgood-marshall)  
​The worst home front disaster of World War II occurred on July 17, 1944, at the Port Chicago ammunition base located near San Francisco when two munitions ships blew up while being loaded. In the segregated Navy, only the black sailors were given the dangerous task of loading the volatile explosives, but they weren't given any training. Thurgood Marshall, then a NAACP lawyer, defended 50 black sailors who were court marshaled after refusing to return to the dangerous job.