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Thurgood [a] Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Norma and William Canfield Marshall. [ 2 ] : 30, 35 His father held various jobs as a waiter in hotels, in clubs, and on railroad cars, and his mother was an elementary school teacher.
Cecilia Suyat Marshall (July 20, 1928 – November 22, 2022) was an American civil rights activist and historian from Hawaii who was married to Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, from 1955 until his death in 1993. She was of Filipino descent.
She grew up in a middle-class black family; her parents Christopher and Maud Burey worked in catering in the city. [2] She attended local schools. She met Thurgood Marshall at age eighteen [3] [4] [5] while she was a student at the University of Pennsylvania and he was a student at nearby Lincoln University. [6]
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.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, right, stands with his family as they watch him take his seat at the court for the first time, Oct. 2, 1967. From left are Marshall’s son ...
Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) [1] was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially attacking segregation in schools and racial housing covenants.
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Jackson was a mentor to civil rights lawyers like Charles Houston and Thurgood Marshall, and raised funds to support their cases. [8] When Marshall worked for the Baltimore NAACP as a new pro bono lawyer, he would have strategy calls with Jackson where he left his phone on his desk as she laid out legal plans, with Marshall only occasionally ...