His leading biographer, Juan Williams, devotes only 54 pages of ... During Marshall’s best years, when he was a civil-rights attorney, confidence was his watchword. Thurgood Marshall was many ...

His name is Thurgood Marshall. The strong-willed civil rights activist and Supreme Court justice is nothing if not heroic in the October release “Marshall.” With Chadwick Boseman in the title ...

From time to time, The Marshall Project will look back at the history of American justice and injustice. We begin with a watershed moment in the life of our namesake. He didn’t know it then, but when ...

Thurgood Marshall became the first Black justice to be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court on this day in history, August 30, 1967. President Lyndon B. Johnson first appointed Marshall to ...

In life, Thurgood Marshall was a brilliant, stubborn and irascible figure. A civil rights lawyer turned Supreme Court justice, he used his knowledge of the law and a passion fueled by his own ...

There was another Black voice echoing throughout the Supreme Court that day, the only other Black justice in the history of the Court: Thurgood Marshall ... much of his 58-page concurrence ...

Civil rights hero Thurgood Marshall wrote an outraged dissent, in which he summed up his reasoning as follows: "In light of the sorry history of discrimination and its devastating impact on the ...

February is Black History Month. This month we take the opportunity to celebrate the life and legacy of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American on the United States Supreme Court.