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Thurgood [a] Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Norma and William Canfield Marshall. [ 2 ] : 30, 35 His father held various jobs as a waiter in hotels, in clubs, and on railroad cars, and his mother was an elementary school teacher.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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The Columbia Peace and Justice Initiative responds to historian's opinion about its proposal to erect a Thurgood Marshall statue on East 8th Street.
Buster married Thurgood Marshall on September 4, 1929, during Marshall's last year at Lincoln. [6] Marshall graduated cum laude and went on to graduate first in his law class at Howard University. [7] After Buster's husband Thurgood graduated from college in 1930, they moved to Baltimore where she worked as a secretary. [7]
In April 1941, Thurgood Marshall is an NAACP lawyer traveling the country defending people of color who are wrongly accused of crimes because of racial prejudice. Upon his return to his New York City office, he is sent to Bridgeport, Connecticut, to defend Joseph Spell, a chauffeur accused of rape by his white employer, Eleanor Strubing, in a case that has gripped the newspapers.