A new documentary exploring the life of pioneering civil rights leader and Baltimore native Thurgood Marshall premieres on ...

*Maryland Public Television (MPT) has announced the upcoming documentary, “Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect,” which is set to explore the remarkable life of Thurgood Marshall ...

NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall pictured on Sept. 17, 1957. The civil rights attorney argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court, which in May 1954 struck ...

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.

Marshall’s most famous victory came in 1954 when he served as the lead attorney in Brown v. Board of Education, a case that challenged racial segregation in public schools.

Marshall’s father introduced him to the legal system when he was a child. On his days off, he would take Thurgood to local courts to hear lawyers argue, and they would discuss the cases afterward.

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Dec. 2) -- Thurgood Marshall, the late Supreme Court justice and civil rights leader, passed information to the FBI about the civil rights movement during the 1950s ...

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.