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Thumbs up. Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Thurgood Marshall successfully argued the 1954 landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, ordering desegregation of public schools. He later became the first African-American appointed to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. for providing a full ride toAlan Newton, who was recently freed after serving a 22-year prisonsentence for a crime he did not commit. Newton was 23 years old when he was given a 40-year sentence forthe rape, robbery and assault of a young woman in New York City New York City:see New York, city. New York CityCity (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Thanksto the Innocence Project at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Newtonwas exonerated in July after DNA testing proved his innocence. While in prison, Newton enrolled in college and is now only fivecourses away from completing his bachelor's in businessadministration. He will attend Medgar Evers College. Newton has saidhe's not angry because "if you stay angry, you can'tgrow." Says Dwayne Ashley, president and CEO of the Fund: "We'reso impressed with his leadership and his tenacity and commitment to puthis life back together and to overcoming this injustice. We'regoing to be hearing good things from him." The TMSF offers financial assistance to students attending thenation's 47 public historically Black colleges and universities Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the African American community. They are often liberal arts colleges or universities. .