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Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice.
In 2021, a new park was planned to honor Thurgood Marshall's invaluable work with the 50 African American sailors. The future "Thurgood Marshall Regional Park – Home of the Port Chicago 50" will be formed from a 2,540-acre (1,030 ha) section of the decommissioned Concord Naval Weapons Station, a short distance from Port Chicago, and will join ...
The Cook County grand jury failed to indict any of the accused rioters, instead indicting Clark's attorney from the NAACP (George N. Leighton, later a federal judge; his own defense counsel would be future Justice of the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall [4]), the owner of the apartment building, and the owner's rental agent and lawyer on charges ...
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. She was of Filipino descent.
Marshall obtained acquittals for 23 of the black defendants, even with an all-white jury. [ 1 ] : 8 Marshall and two Tennessee attorneys required an escort to leave the county safely. [ 2 ] At the last murder trials in November 1946, Marshall also won acquittal for Rooster Bill Pillow, and a reduction in the sentence of Papa Kennedy, allowing ...
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. ... TheGrio is FREE on your TV via ...
Marshall’s son, Thurgood Marshall Jr., who is also a lawyer, told Yahoo News that his father would be proud of this honor. “I know he would be immensely moved,” Marshall Jr. said. “Our ...
However, Marshall's confirmation process lasted a longer period, and the confirmation vote required a roll call vote, despite the Senate being controlled by the Democratic Party. [ 17 ] While Marshall had a healthy majority in his confirmation vote, 69 votes was only several votes above the a two-thirds supermajority needed to overcome a ...