THURGOOD MARSHALL
1967-1991
Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court’s 96th justice and its first African American justice
Thurgood Marshall was born on 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, his father William Marshall was a road porter and his mother Norma Marshall was a teacher. He had one other sibling William Aubrey Marshall.
He did his early education in Maryland. He attended Baltimore’s Colored High and Training School completing high school in 1925, Thurgood followed his in the footsteps of his brother, William Aubrey Marshall, at the historically black Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was part of an amazing group of students which included Cab Calloway, Langston Hughes, and Kwame Nkrumah. In 1930 he graduated the head of his class with honors.