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A national holiday commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King. Movies portray the lives of Jackie Robinson and Malcolm X. Even so, the civil rights leader that brought about the most significant, lasting change in the 20th century is Thurgood Marshall. Beginning his legal work with the NAACP in 1934, Thurgood Marshall often at great personal risk won case after case bringing justice to black Americans. Culminating with his victory in the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954, Marshall more than anyone else brought an end to legal segregation in the United States. Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967, Marshall joined the fraternity of liberal justices that guaranteed the Constitutional rights of all Americans.
