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 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.

Maryland Public Television (MPT) has announced the upcoming documentary, “Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect,” ...

Legislation led by Maryland lawmakers, aimed at preserving a significant part of Baltimore history, could help the elementary school of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall receive designation ...

Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, ... In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court, ...

Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967, grew up nearby on Division Street.

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 ...

Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. He won the Brown versus Board of Education court case dismantling segregation and reshaping civil rights law.

Thurgood Marshall's clock. Marshall was the first African American justice on the Supreme Court, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967. Marshall already had been the most prominent ...

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 ...

On October 2, 1967, His official title became Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to occupy a seat at the highest court of the land.

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.