1. Thurgood Marshall
... the fist Black lawyer to win a case before the Supreme Court. He watched Houston stand up and fight for a black man with his life on the line: "The lawyer was there to bear the brunt of getting rid of segregation," Marshall said. " And Houston made public statements that ... of its primary goals. Marshall, along with his mentor, Houston, developed a long-term strategy for eradicating segregation in schools. They first concentrated on graduate and professional schools, believing that white judges would be more likely to sympathize with these two ambitious, quick thinking and resourceful ...
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