Congress Congress votes to remove bust of chief justice who authored Dred Scott decision The bill commissions a bust of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in place of Roger B. Taney ...

Thurgood Marshall, before joining the bench in 1967, led the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. In that position, he was chief counsel for the series of cases that led to the historic Brown v.

From left are Marshall's son Thurgood, Jr., 11, wife Cecilia, and son John, 9. Marshall joined the Supreme Court in 1967 as the court's first Black justice. The Supreme Court Cecilia "Cissy" has died.

Cecilia Marshall, widow of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, laughs while watching a slide show about her husband during a meeting to rally support for renaming Baltimore-Washington ...

PBS will debut a powerful new documentary honoring one of the most transformative legal minds in American history. Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect explores the life, legacy, and impact ...

The widow of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man to serve on the court, died Tuesday, according to a statement from the court. She was 94. Cecilia Suyat Marshall ...

The Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2024 was introduced in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate by Congressman Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07), along with ...

FILE - Cecilia Marshall, widow of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, laughs while watching a slide show about her husband during a meeting to rally support for renaming Baltimore-Washington ...

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, died Tuesday at the age ...