BECOMING THURGOOD: AMERICA’S SOCIAL ARCHITECT follows Justice Marshall’s journey from his birth in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1908 through his years at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs ...
NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall pictured on Sept. 17, 1957. The civil rights attorney argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court, which in May 1954 struck down ...
A PBS documentary, “Becoming Thurgood,” offers a look at the early life of the iconic civil rights lawyer and first Black ...
*Maryland Public Television (MPT) has announced the upcoming documentary, “Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect,” which is set to explore the remarkable life of Thurgood Marshall, the first ...
Despite the inclement weather, an enthusiastic group numbering several dozen gathered in Northwest Washington, D.C. on May 9, for two purposes: to commemorate the 70 th anniversary of the landmark U.S ...
Thurgood Marshall smiles as he sits in a Supreme Court Building office following ceremony at which Marshall was sworn in as the High Court's newest justice in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 1, 1967. As ...
Host Michel Martin talks with actor Laurence Fishburne and playwright George Stevens, Jr. about Thurgood, a one-man play about the life of civil rights icon and pioneering African-American Supreme ...