Photo from the July 1967 edition of The Call

In 1954, Thurgood Marshall received the Workers Circle’s Human Rights Award for his work in fighting school segregation. Marshall famously argued before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education where the Supreme Court unanimously struck down segregation in schools. Read more about Thurgood Marshall and the Brown v. Board of Education decision. 

Thirteen years later in 1967, President Lyndon Baines Johnson named Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court making him the first Black Justice. The Workers Circle sent congratulatory messages to both men. Learn more about Thurgood Marshall and his groundbreaking career.