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In 1943, Thurgood Marshall came to Hillburn and helped lead a boycott of the village's inferior Brook School that educated the children of color.
Today, July 2 is now considered a special day moving forward for Maryland. City leaders are calling for a statewide holiday to recognize Justice Thurgood Marshall. The plea comes from a historic ...
When the Brook School families were fined as "truants" for keeping their children home to protest the conditions of their school, they were represented by a young NAACP lawyer and future Supreme Court ...
Blue Meridian Partners and The Leonsis Family Foundation and Monumental Sports & Entertainment will be honored at the ...
As contractors completed the painstaking restoration of the public school attended by former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in West Baltimore, it’s time to consider the historic ...
A new documentary exploring the life of pioneering civil rights leader and Baltimore native Thurgood Marshall premieres on PBS this fall.
From left are Marshall's son Thurgood, Jr., 11, wife Cecilia, and son John, 9. Marshall joined the Supreme Court in 1967 as the court's first Black justice. The Supreme Court Cecilia "Cissy" has died.
July 2, 2021, marks Thurgood Marshall's 113th birthday, and it also marks the first proclamations for Thurgood Marshall Day in Maryland.
Why the ‘superhero origin’ story of Thurgood Marshall is ‘important,’ but still ‘entertaining’ Gregory Wakeman Posted on October 12, 2017 Getty Images ...
A former law clerk for the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall offers a rare glimpse into the life and legacy of the first African-American to sit on the nation's highest court in a new ...
Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall, the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall who worked alongside the civil rights champion at the NAACP, died Tuesday at the age of 94, the ...
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is perhaps best known for Brown v. the Board of Education. Now, actor Laurence Fishburne is playing him on Broadway in Thurgood, which is playing to sold ...