MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Today marks 58 years since Thurgood Marshall made history by becoming the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Marshall’s work changed the legal landscape in America.

His victory in Brown v. Board of Education paved the way for desegregation—impacting cities like Memphis, where public schools began the slow process of integration in the years that followed.

His fight for equality echoed here, influencing civil rights leaders who gathered during the 1960s, just a year before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. brought his own movement to the Bluff City.

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