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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.
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.
Thurgood is a one-man play about the life of Thurgood Marshall. It was written by George Stevens, Jr. The show premiered in 2006 at the Westport Country Playhouse , starring James Earl Jones and directed by Leonard Foglia .
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 ...
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.
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.
Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum is an animated children's television series that premiered on November 11, 2019, on PBS Kids. [1] The series is produced by 9 Story Media Group. It is based on the children's book series written by Brad Meltzer and Chris Eliopoulos, named Ordinary People Change the World. [2]