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Marshall, his wife Cissy, and their children John (bottom left) and Thurgood Jr. (bottom right), 1965 Marshall wed Vivian "Buster" Burey on September 4, 1929, while he was a student at Lincoln University.
Cecilia Suyat Marshall (July 20, 1928 – November 22, 2022) was an American civil rights activist and historian from Hawaii who was married to Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, from 1955 until his death in 1993.
Thurgood Marshall Jr. (born August 12, 1956) is an American lawyer and son of the late United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.Marshall worked in the Bill Clinton White House and is a retired international law firm partner.
Cecilia Suyat was born in Hawaii on July 20, 1928. WASHINGTON (AP) — Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall, the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall who worked alongside the ...
John W. Marshall — son of Thurgood Marshall, first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court — will speak Friday in Topeka about his father's legacy.
Vivian "Buster" Burey Marshall (February 11, 1911 – February 11, 1955) was an American civil rights activist and was married for 25 years, until her death, to Thurgood Marshall, lead counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who also managed Brown v.
Constance Baker was born on September 14, 1921, in New Haven, Connecticut, the ninth of twelve children. [8] Her parents, Rachel Huggins and McCullough Alva Baker, [9] were immigrants from the Caribbean Island Nevis. Before coming to the United States, Rachel worked as a seamstress and a teacher while McCullough worked as a cobbler. [10]
Thurgood Marshall. Méndez's children were finally allowed to attend the 17th Street Elementary school, thus becoming among the first Hispanics to attend an all-white school in California. However, the situation was not easy for their daughter Sylvia. Her white peers called her names and treated her poorly.