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With his team at @NAACP_LDF, #Marshall worked to create an America that didn't exist and for which there was no blueprint. And they created the concept of the "civil rights lawyer" - attorneys who fight to ensure that the rule of law protects those at the margins.
@NAACP_LDF As a Justice, he brought his experience as a civil rts atty & his intellect to bear on the most wrenching legal issues of the late 20th century. And he was unwavering in bringing the truth of how the law really works in the lives of Black people into the Supreme Court conference.
@NAACP_LDF As Justice White once remarked, "Thurgood could tell us the way it was." But more importantly Justice White wrote, Marshall, "would tell us things we knew but would rather forget." A legal giant. His example is ever before us. #ThurgoodMarshall
