法律生涯 A Career in Law

瑟古德馬歇爾是第一位擔任美國最高法院大法官的非裔美國人，他從1967年開始在最高法院服務、直到1991年退休為只；在任此職之前，馬歇爾擔任「全國有色人種協進會」（NAACP）的律師，協助1954年廢除種族隔離政策的案件 -「布朗控訴投陴卡教育局案」（Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas） - 贏得勝訴；他終其一生都致力於運用法律爭取公民權和社會正義。

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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