法律生涯 A Career in Law

瑟古德马歇尔是第一位担任美国最高法院大法官的非裔美国人，他从1967年开始在最高法院服务、直到1991年退休为只；在任此职之前，马歇尔担任「全国有色人种协进会」（NAACP）的律师，协助1954年废除种族隔离政策的案件 -「布朗控诉投陴卡教育局案」（Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas） - 赢得胜诉；他终其一生都致力于运用法律争取公民权和社会正义。

After graduating from Howard University Law School in 1933, Thurgood Marshall worked at his own law practice for three years. Then he went to work for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a civil rights group. Marshall worked on many important cases while at the NAACP, but by 1961 he was ready for a change and needed to earn more money to support his family. Marshall thought he might get a job at a private law firm, but President John F. Kennedy had a different idea: President Kennedy asked Marshall to become a federal judge for the United States Court of Appeals in New York.

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