Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, during a period when racial segregation and discrimination were deeply entrenched in American society. Marshall’s early exposure to the ...

Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. He won the Brown versus Board of Education court case dismantling segregation and reshaping civil rights law. Thanks to ...

Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...

Applicants must hold United States citizenship or permanent residents and shall exemplify the values and accomplishments of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme ...