During the late 1940s and 1950s,______ was the head lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

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Thurgood Marshall was the head lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund during the late 1940s and 1950s. He was instrumental in the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which declared segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. Marshall later became the first African American Supreme Court justice in 1967.

During the Late 1940s and 1950s,______ Was the Head Lawyer