American RadioWorks documentary: Thurgood Marshall Before the Court
Broadcast: Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, 05/17/2012, 12:00 p.m.
On the anniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Board v. Board of Education, hear an American RadioWorks documentary about Thurgood Marshall, who was the NAACP lawyer who argued the case before the Supreme Court. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed him to the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American appointed to the Supreme Court.
