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 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.

During the Kagan hearing, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee took a pounding from the usual suspects for daring to suggest that Thurgood Marshall ... as the NAACP LDF’s chief lawyer….

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 ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - February is Black History Month and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continue to salute the contributions of African Americans in labor with the help of Bossier Parish high ...

Local Chattanooga attorney Maurice Weaver was brought into the case to represent the 25 defendants, and is featured in the ...

PS 103 on Division Street is remembered as the elementary school Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall attended more than ...

He was the kind of defiant, well-schooled, experienced attorney that Nevada needed at that time,” a historian said.

In 1940, Thurgood Marshall is a young lawyer for the NAACP who criss-crosses the country defending innocent African-Americans from unjust indictments in court. His latest case is in Bridgeport ...