Birth. Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 2, 1908. His middle name was “Demosthenes” after the famous Greek orator. 2. Slave descendance.

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.

Cecilia Marshall in 2006. She served on the boards of the Supreme Court Historical Society and the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund and guarded his legacy after his death in 1993.

Cecilia Marshall, widow of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, laughs while watching a slide show about her husband in Annapolis, Md., on March 28, 2005.

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 ...

Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall, the widow of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, who was the first Black justice to serve on the Supreme Court, died on Tuesday in Falls Church, Virginia, the court ...