The Legal Attack to Secure Civil Rights
Thurgood Marshall. “The Legal Attack to Secure Civil Rights,” July 13, 1942. Occasion: Speech given at the NAACP Wartime Conference,...
Read MoreThe Many Masks of Thurgood Marshall
This is an opend piece that ran in the Post following the death of Thurgood Marshall in January 1993. The Many Masks of Thurgood...
Read MoreThe Private Thurgood Marshall
The Private Thurgood Marshall As the newly appointed Justice Marshall began his life at the Supreme Court in 1967, he got a pleasant...
Read MoreThurgood Marshall’s Law
This is the January 1990 Washington Post Magazine cover story that Juan Williams wrote profiling the reclusive Marshall. The 81-year-old...
Read MoreThe Sword and The Robe
With the victory of Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980, the mood in the country and on the high Court turned increasingly...
Read MoreThe Bicentennial Speech
This speech Thurgood Marshall gave in 1987 was part of the constitutional bicentennial celebration. Politicians and Judges around the...
Read MoreThe Equality Speech
The following is a speech Marshall gave at the instillation of Wiley Branton to be dean of Howard Law School. Marshall and Branton had...
Read MoreMiscellaneous
Marshall held controversial views on several subjects. Here’s a sampling: Q: On the dissents that you do write, what do you think...
Read MoreMarshall on his fellow justices
Marshall’s 24 years on the high court allowed him to serve on the liberal Warren Courts as well as the increasingly conservative...
Read MoreMarshall on the Politics of Race and the Court
Marshall spoke at length about his attitudes — how he viewed the politics of race in America and what he saw his fellow justices...
Read MoreMarshall’s views on the Presidents
Marshall personally knew every president from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton. Some he greatly admired, while others he held in contempt: On...
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Thurgood Marshall College
Mission & Philosophy At Thurgood Marshall College we are dedicated to helping students from all majors become engaged citizens who are...
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Malcolm X
Some of the most vocal critics of Marshall were black militants, particularly the nation of Islam and its charismatic Harlem leader,...
Read MoreMartin Luther King, Jr.
Marshall won several major Supreme Court cases outlawing segregation in housing, transportation, and in 1954 won Brown v Board of...
Read MoreJ. Edgar Hoover
Beginning in the 1940s, Marshall battled with federal law enforcement officials for failing to protect the civil rights of black Americans...
Read MoreEarly NAACP legal work
In 1936, Marshall moved to New York to work at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The civil rights...
Read MoreThurgood Marshall’s early life
After graduating Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, Thurgood Marshall went to all male Lincoln University in Oxford, PA. Among...
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