Who is Thurgood Marshall from The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court and what is their importance?

Marshall was an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. He had been head of the Inc. Fund until he was appointed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals by President Kennedy in 1961. He was made Solicitor General by President Johnson in 1965, and two years later was appointed to the Supreme Court. He was the head lawyer on the original Brown case.