Introductory Remarks: \u3ci\u3eBrown v. Board of Education\u3c/i\u3e and Its Legacy: A Tribute To Justice Thurgood Marshall

This issue of the Fordham Law Review presents Fordham Law School\u27s tribute to one of the giants of American law and American history on the occasion of his retirement from the Supreme Court, Justice Thurgood Marshall. Because he decided to make the law his career and because of the way in which he pursued that career, the United States today is a remarkably different place than it was in 1933 when he began practice, and ours is a far more just society. Justice Marshall made history repeatedly--as Chief Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, as Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, as Solicitor General, and, of course, as Supreme Court Justice. But perhaps his most important contribution was his victory in the case of Brown v. Board of Education