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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.
After meeting Thurgood Marshall in 1975, Gibson began collecting information on him, which led to the publication of his 2012 book, Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice. [7] [8] He is currently working on his second book on Marshall which will chronicle Marshall's first career from 1935 to 1955 [7] [2]
The young man's voice boomed over thousands of students, donors and celebrities who gathered in the Sheraton Hotel in New Celebrities Celebrate Young Black Scholars At The Thurgood Marshall Awards ...
Cecilia Marshall, widow of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, laughs while watching a slide show about her husband during a meeting to rally support for renaming Baltimore-Washington ...
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.
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America is a 2012 nonfiction book by the American author Gilbert King.It is a history of the attorney Thurgood Marshall's defense of four young black men in Lake County, Florida, who were accused in 1949 of raping a white woman.
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.