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 ...

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 ...

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 ...