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  • Thurgood Marshall as an Advocate

    Article

    Before he was a Supreme Court Justice, Marshall advocated for civil rights as a lawyer with the NAACP.

  • Incorporating Rights

    Era

    During the 1950s and 1960s, Supreme Court decisions addressed issues involving individual rights in the civil rights movement, the apportionment of voting, police procedures, and the scope of state power in areas such as birth control and school prayer.

  • Earl Warren

    Life Story

    The accomplished attorney general and California governor who led the Supreme Court as Chief Justice during a 16-year period of many Constitutional decisions protecting individual rights

  • Baker v. Carr

    Significant Case

    The landmark case that declared unequal representation in legislative districts to be unconstitutional and that the courts have jurisdiction over questions of legislative apportionment

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