1st Black man ........................supreme court justice...........and chief justice.........Benjamin Banneker and Frederick Douglas were also from Baltimore............Ronald Reagan and Thurgood Marshall..........................white man/ black man..............Danny Glover/Mel Gibson..........to Chris Bale.......and Morgan Freeman......................Batman and Lucius Fox.................you see that a lot in American movies.....

Thurgood Marshall

Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Description

Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Wikipedia

Born: July 2, 1908, Baltimore, MD

Died: January 24, 1993, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

Education: Howard University School of Law (1933), Frederick Douglass High School (1925), Lincoln University

Spouse: Cecilia Suyat Marshall (m. 1955–1993), Vivian Burey Marshall (m. 1929–1955)

Children: John W. Marshall, Thurgood Marshall, Jr.

Appointed by: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson

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