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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.
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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]
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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Taney’s bust would be replaced by that of Thurgood Marshall, the court’s first Black justice. Civil rights experts say replacing Roger Taney statue with Thurgood Marshall's is overdue Skip to ...
His defense counsel, Thurgood Marshall, gained a change of venue to Marion County, Florida, because of the extensive and adverse publicity around the case in Lake County. Marshall led the defense team from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Irvin was again found guilty. Judge Futch, who was again presiding, sentenced him to death. [22]