Explore the life of Thurgood Marshall in 'Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect,' a new PBS documentary premiering in September.

A civil rights activist herself, she guarded Thurgood Marshall’s legacy as the first Black member of the Supreme Court.

Cecilia “Cissy” Marshall, a former NAACP legal secretary who safeguarded the reputation and legacy of her late husband, Thurgood Marshall, a towering civil rights lawyer who became the first ...

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.

Today marks not only Abraham Lincoln's birth, but appropriately the 100th anniversary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as well -- for which Marshall was ...

Primary Source Thurgood Marshall Was My Mentor. He’d Be Furious with the Court Today. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The Supreme Court justice ...

The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall, the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall who worked alongside the civil rights champion at the NAACP ...

As contractors completed the painstaking restoration of the public school attended by former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in West Baltimore, it’s time to consider the historic ...

Thurgood Marshall does not care for the recognition of his kind or for the Black Nation. He is in love with the white race.

Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, during a period when racial segregation and discrimination were deeply entrenched in American society.

American History, Civil Rights, Black History and theatrical drama are magically melding on stage in the one act play THURGOOD that is playing at Buffalo's Irish Classical Theatre.

Before he became the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall was already a powerful civil rights pioneer.