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The Civil Rights Movement Begins — Quiz

Question 12 • US History: Reconstruction to Present

Brown v. Board of Education was argued before the Supreme Court by

Answer
A
Linda Brown.
B
Thurgood Marshall.
C
Reverend Oliver Brown.
D
Orval Faubus.

Explanation

Thurgood Marshall argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court as an attorney for the plaintiffs. He was then a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and later became the first Black justice on the Supreme Court. Reverend Oliver Brown was a plaintiff, not the lawyer who argued the case.

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