6 Facts About Thurgood Marshall

1. In 1987, Thurgood Marshall gave a controversial speech on the occasion of the bicentennial celebrations of the Constitution of the United States.

2. In a private letter to Hoover, Thurgood Marshall "attacked Howard as a 'rugged individualist' who did not speak for the NAACP.

3. In total, Thurgood Marshall won 29 out of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court.

4. In 1933, Thurgood Marshall graduated first in his law class at Howard.

5. In his second year Thurgood Marshall participated in a sit-in protest against segregation at a local movie theater.

6. In his first year Thurgood Marshall opposed the integration of African-American professors at the university.