Before joining high court, Thurgood Marshall made history in Detroit | Free Press Flashback Ken Coleman © AP Thurgood Marshall Supreme Court Justice
Thirty years ago this week, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the great-grandson of a slave and the first African American to sit on the nation s high court, announced his retirement after nearly a quarter century on the Supreme Court.
A liberal from Baltimore, Marshall often ruled in support of civil rights and voting rights cases and played a significant role in helping to power civil rights advances that often were launched from Detroit.
“His great achievement was to expand rights for individual Americans,” wrote Juan Williams, author of “Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary.”
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