The influential legacy of Thurgood Marshall, who served as the first Black associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967-1991, is in the spotlight once more as PBS premieres its new ...

In 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement. (His departure led to the contentious nomination of Clarence ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Thurgood Marshall graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 1933. He established a private legal practice in ...

WEBVTT STATE AND COUNTRY.ANDRE: MENTAL IN HAVING THISMADE.IN 1980 THE UNIVERSITY OFMARYLAND LAW SCHOOL SALUTED THENATION'S FIRST BLACK U.S.SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, WITH THE,THURGOOD MARSHAL LAW ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer falsely claimed Thursday that the Supreme Court was made up of "all White men" until 1981, skipping over the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, who was appointed by ...

Much of the country has extolled the triumph of this nation getting its first Black woman on the United States Supreme Court. As it should. But the beauty of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation ...

Laurence Fishburne will return to Broadway next spring in “Thurgood,” a one-man show about the late Thurgood Marshall, the first black member of the U.S. Supreme Court. The play by George Stevens Jr.

The widow of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man to serve on the court, died Tuesday, according to a statement from the court. She was 94. Cecilia Suyat Marshall, who ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first Black nominated to serve on the Supreme Court. He was confirmed after four days of grueling hearings. Marshall served on the high court ...

Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th ...