Marshall retired from the bench in 1991 and passed away on January 24, 1993, in Washington D.C. He served as Associate Justice from 1967-1991 after being nominated by President Johnson. He was the architect of the legal strategy that ended the country’s official policy of segregation and was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court. Marshall founded LDF in 1940 and served as its first Director-Counsel. Thurgood Marshall was an influential leader of the civil rights movement whose tremendous legacy lives on in the pursuit of racial justice.
