Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908. His original first name was Thoroughgood, after one of his grandfathers, Thorough Good Marshall, who had been a slave.

Maryland Public Television (MPT) has announced the upcoming documentary, “Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect,” ...

Cecilia Marshall, widow of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, laughs while watching a slide show about her husband in Annapolis, Md., on March 28, 2005.

HE WASN'T ALWAYS THURGOOD. Thoroughgood Marshall was born in Maryland in 1908. Young Thoroughgood would eventually change his name to Thurgood. He once admitted, ...

Sunday marks the 115th year since Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was born in West Baltimore. Beloved Community Services Corporation, a Baltimore nonprofit, is hosting a celebration of Mars… ...

A Black artist’s Thurgood Marshall replaces portrait of a likely enslaver. For 300 years, Maryland’s seat of power has featured art of White men.

CONCORD, N.H. — Immigrants rights’ advocates today filed a new nationwide class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump ...

Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, during a period when racial segregation and discrimination were deeply entrenched in American society.

Cecilia “Cissy” Marshall, the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice and civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall, died on Tuesday at age 94, the court’s public information office announced.

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 ...

The Supreme Court says the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall has died. ... Cecilia Suyat was born in Hawaii on July 20, 1928.