Georgetown University law professor Cliff Sloan, author of "The Court at War," talked about Thurgood Marshall's cases before the Supreme Court during the World War II, including Adams v. United ...

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,” ...

Thurgood Marshall, civil rights activist and NAACP chief counsel, was confirmed as the first Black Supreme Court justice on this day in history, August 30, 1967.

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

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… ...

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.