A ‘cultural and political war’ continues in Maryland with reports that the Navy is considering renaming vessels bearing the ...

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 ...

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 being sworn in to the Supreme Court on Oct. 2, 1967 was not the first time he changed the course of U.S. history. He became the first ever African American justice after fighting ...

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 ...

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 ...

February is Black History Month and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continue to salute the contributions of African Americans in labor with the help of Bossier Parish high school students. Thurgood Marshall was ...

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 ...

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.