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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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