Thurgood Marshall Autograph

Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought for civil rights, leading the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Marshall was a prominent figure in the movement to end racial segregation in American public schools. He won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the Supreme Court, culminating in the Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which rejected the separate but equal doctrine and held segregation in public education to be unconstitutional. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court in 1967. A staunch liberal, he frequently dissented as the Court became increasingly conservative. More about Thurgood Marshall

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Current items with a signature of Thurgood Marshall

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Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Marshall attended Lincoln University and the Howard University School of Law. At Howard, he was mentored by Charles Hamilton Houston, who taught his students to be "social engineers" willing to use the law to fight for civil rights. Marshall opened a law practice in Baltimore but soon joined Houston at the NAACP in New York. They worked together on the segregation case of Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada; after Houston returned to Washington, Marshall took his place as special counsel of the NAACP, and he became director-counsel of the newly formed NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He participated in numerous landmark Supreme Court cases involving civil rights, including Smith v. Allwright, Morgan v. Virginia, Shelley v. Kraemer, McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, Sweatt v. Painter, Brown, and Cooper v. Aaron. His approach to desegregation cases emphasized the use of sociological data to show that segregation was inherently unequal.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Marshall to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where he favored a broad interpretation of constitutional protections. Four years later, Johnson appointed him as the U.S. Solicitor General. In 1967, Johnson nominated Marshall to replace Justice Tom C. Clark on the Supreme Court; despite opposition from Southern senators, he was confirmed by a vote of 69 to 11. He was often in the majority during the consistently liberal Warren Court period, but after appointments by President Richard Nixon made the Court more conservative, Marshall frequently found himself in dissent. His closest ally on the Court was Justice William J. Brennan Jr., and the two voted the same way in most cases. Read even more about Thurgood Marshall at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Thurgood Marshall

In total, we tracked 63 items since 01/01/2008. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.

The most expensive item with a signature of Thurgood Marshall (SUPREME COURT JUSTICES signed photo THURGOOD MARSHALL FUNERAL 10 signed JSA) was sold in May 2017 for $1500.00 while the cheapest item (Wil Haygood SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED Showdown Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court) found a new owner for $11.39 in June 2020. The month with the most items sold (3) was November 2017 with an average selling price of $250.00 for an autographed item of Thurgood Marshall. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2022 with $999.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $25.00 was November 2016. In average, an autographed item from Thurgood Marshall is worth $195.00.

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thumbnailTHURGOOD MARSHALL (1st Black Supreme Court Justice) Signed Autograph Letter CoA$999.99logo
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thumbnailTHURGOOD MARSHALL SUPREME COURT SIGNED LETTER$499.99logo
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thumbnailUS SUPREME COURT '72 Pamphlet Signed/Autographed By 8 Justices Thurgood Marshall$275.00logo

Latest News about Thurgood Marshall

Congress Set to Replace Dred Scott Author’s Statue With Thurgood Marshall (12/15/22): A bill passed Wednesday would require officials to remove a statue of Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who wrote the racist Dred Scott decision, from its place on the Senate side of the Capitol. Go to news article

House to vote on removal of bust of Roger B. Taney, segregationist who wrote Sup (07/01/20): The House will vote later this month on legislation that would replace the bust of Taney with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American member of the Supreme Court. Go to news article