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Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court 50 years ago this August. As Black History Month came to a close last month, District of Columbia ...
As the title suggests, the movie is about Thurgood Marshall, the iconic civil rights ... in one of his less publicized cases—an African American chauffeur accused of rape and attempted murder ...
The 96th Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States was its first African-American one, Thurgood Marshall. The great-grandson of a slave born in modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Before he became the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall was already a powerful civil rights pioneer: He argued 32 cases in front of the Supreme Court in his ...
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to occupy a seat at the highest court of the land. This great achievement was the climax of a legal career that reshaped American society.
Fifty-six years ago, on August 30, 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. During his nearly 25 years on the Supreme Court ...
On April 24, just under a month before the official anniversary on May 17, the Thurgood Marshall Center Trust and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture will ...
List of Navy vessels to possibly be renamed includes Thurgood Marshall and Harriet Tubman - both who have ties to historic ...
On the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ... class, which kicked off this month, recognized Thurgood Marshall, the first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Rev. Alvin Hathaway, president of Beloved Community Services Corp., leads a tour of the historic PS 103, where Justice Thurgood Marshall and many other West Baltimore African Americans attended.
One of its former students, Justice Thurgood Marshall--an American civil rights icon and the U.S. Supreme Court's first African American justice. Marshall was a student at the school from 1914 to ...
Thurgood Marshall College Fund Named for the first African American Supreme Court Justice, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund supports thousands of students at HBCUs nationwide. The fund focuses ...