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In a term marked by rulings limiting immigrants’ rights, the court sided with several other people harmed by the criminal justice system.
Inscribed above the front entrance to this Court building are the words, “Equal Justice Under Law.” Surely no one individual did more to make these words a reality than Thurgood Marshall.
Thurgood Marshall representing the winning side in the historic 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court decision and later was named the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Son of Thurgood Marshall will speak Friday in Topeka Marshall is remembered for representing the winning side in the historic 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court decision, which ...
President Lyndon Johnson tapped Marshall to be the country’s next Solicitor General in 1965, then nominated him for the Supreme Court in 1967. His nomination was confirmed on August 30, 1967 ...
Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Fort Lauderdale celebrated the civil rights leader, Friday afternoon. Fifty-seven years ago on Friday, Marshall made history by becoming the first Black ...
The Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center, formerly known as Public School 103, was an elementary school located three blocks from Supreme Court Justice Marshall’s childhood home, which is located at ...
Thurgood Marshall was not happy. It was 1990, and the Supreme Court was considering a case that threatened to undermine his life’s work: The school district in Board of Education of Oklahoma ...
The Rev. Al Hathaway breaks into a broad smile when he leads an informal tour of his $14 million project, the painstaking restoration of the West Baltimore public school where Supreme Court Justice… ...
Thurgood Through October 1 at Cleveland Play House, Playhouse Square, Allen Theatre, 1407 Euclid Ave., clevelandplayhouse.com, 216-241-6000. Subscribe to Cleveland Scene newsletters.
Fifty-six years ago, Marshall became the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. During his nearly 25 years on the Court, he played a pivotal role in civil rights advocacy.
The power of Marshall’s voice on the current Court, in the form of Jackson’s and Sotomayor’s dissent, showed that Thomas’s views did not carry the day with Black Americans.