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Thurgood Marshall

The architect of American race relations in the twentieth century, he ended legal segregation in the United States and became the first African-American on the Supreme Court.  

Editor's Note: Juan Williams is a journalist and political analyst for Fox News and writes for The Washington Post, The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and other publications.
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