Who was the lawyer for the NAACP who became the first Black Supreme Court Justice?

• A. Rosa Parks
• B. Martin Luther King Jr.
• C. Thurgood Marshall
• D. Malcolm X

Answer: (C)

The main idea here is identifying the NAACP lawyer who later became the first Black Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall fits this role precisely. He was the NAACP’s leading attorney, renowned for shaping civil rights litigation and arguing Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court, which helped overturn the legal basis for racial segregation in public schools. He was later nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson and confirmed as an Associate Justice in 1967, making him the first Black person to serve on the Supreme Court. The other figures listed were key leaders and activists in the movement, but they were not NAACP lawyers who joined the Court.