Thurgood Marshall stands as one of America's most influential legal minds, world knew as "Mr. Civil Rights," led to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education.
PS 103 on Division Street is remembered as the elementary school Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall attended more than ...
argued by future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. Living with Segregation: At the Movies If you went to the theatres, you would go in the front and you'd pay money and you'd go around to ...
It's one of the most painful periods of America's history. It was just over 70 years ago, on May 17th, 1954, The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a unanimous ruling that would change our educational ...
Black History Month isn't a time to glorify a threat to Black progress. Clarence Thomas has proven himself time and time ...
Son of a dining-car waiter and schoolteacher and also counsel for the NAACP beginning in 1934, Thurgood Marshall successfully argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which ...
During the Kagan hearing, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee took a pounding from the usual suspects for daring to suggest that Thurgood Marshall wasn’t a model justice. Never mind ...
Local Chattanooga attorney Maurice Weaver was brought into the case to represent the 25 defendants, and is featured in the ...
Board of Education, ruled that school segregation was illegal. The NAACP hired future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to argue its case. Who needs to learn from history and who is ...
He was the kind of defiant, well-schooled, experienced attorney that Nevada needed at that time,” a historian said.
This suit was an umbrella for five cases concerning public school segregation. Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund helped the plaintiffs come before the Supreme Court ...
Gray worked with Thurgood Marshall and other notable legal minds defending the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a 13-month protest against racial segregation on public transit in Montgomery, Alabama ...