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As an African-American Thurgood has always been affected by racial injustice in America, and due to early exposure to the law and its practice from his father he always had a penchant for the art. Because of this, he went on to study the law facing racial prejudice and obstacles along the way he went on to become the first African American Supreme Court Justice winning 29 out of the 32 cases he argued against the court for Arcian-American Civil rights. This inspired the American Civil Rights movement. Thurgood was part of the NAACP working for them for a time before he went on to become a Justice before of which in 1940 he had founded the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LFD) being the first civil and human rights law firm. He had won several cases pertaining towards the dissolution of Jim Crow Laws thus when Brown Vs. The Board of Education came about, he helped the case win with his previous case wins setting precedent it ended with a unanimous vote ending segregation in public schools on May 17, 1954, this is arguably his greatest and most famous achievement during his time. Members of the court previous to his position and which voted on Brown v.s Board of Education include Felix Frankfurter (1939-1962) Hugo Black (1937-1971) Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969) Stanley F. Reed (1938-1957) William O. Douglas (1939-1975) Tom C. Clark (1949-1967) Robert H. Jackson (1941-1954) Harold H. Burton (1945-1958) and Sherman Minton (1949-1956).
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