For that reason, Sotomayor called the court’s “recharacterization of Brown” not only a “revisionist history” but “an affront to the legendary life” of Justice Thurgood Marshall, the lawyer who led the Brown litigation.

Source: https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-affirmative-action-dissent-ketanji-brown-jackson-rcna91823

In January 1954, attorneys Thurgood Marshall and A.P. Tureaud filed a class action complaint on their behalf.

Source: https://bossierpress.com/newest-louisiana-civil-rights-trail-marker-recognizes-first-state-funded-college-in-south-to-integrate-and-the-students-who-made-it-happen/

Thurgood Marshall spoke to many NAACP youth groups before the United States Supreme Court overturned segregation in 1954.

Source: https://atlantadailyworld.com/2023/06/15/j-pharoah-doss-jim-crow-deja-vu-or-am-i-oppressed/