* 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

* 1967 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U. S. Supreme Court.

* 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.

The medal may be awarded to an individual more than once ( John Kenneth Galbraith and Colin Powell each have received two awards ; Ellsworth Bunker received both of his awards With Distinction ), and may also be awarded posthumously ( for example, Cesar Chavez, Paul " Bear " Bryant, Roberto Clemente, Jack Kemp, John F. Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, and Lyndon Johnson ).

* Marshall, Thurgood ( 2001 ).

Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions and Reminiscences.

United States courts of appeals | U. S. circuit judges Robert Katzmann, Damon Keith, and Sonia Sotomayor at a 2004 exhibit on the Fourteenth Amendment, Thurgood Marshall, and Brown v. Board of Education.

** Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, First African-American on the Supreme Court ( b. 1908 )

* June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.

* August 30 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Baltimore / Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is an international airport serving the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area in the United States.

It is named after Thurgood Marshall, a Baltimore native and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.

* In 1969 students from the Black Student Council and Mexican-American Youth Association of the University of California, San Diego proposed the name Lumumba-Zapata College, for what is now known as Thurgood Marshall College.

They chose to juxtapose Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address with that of Confederate president Jefferson Davis ; they debated removing Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and labor-leader César Chávez and rejected calls to include more Hispanic figures, in spite of the high Hispanic population in the state.

In 1967, Johnson nominated civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

The closest airports with commercial air service to Dover include the Wicomico Regional Airport in Salisbury, Maryland, the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* Marshall, Thurgood ( 2001 ).

Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions and Reminiscences.

* Facsimiles of letters to the Justice Department and Thurgood Marshall from the Kennedy library

The NAACP's chief counsel, Thurgood Marshall — who was later appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court in 1967 — argued the case before the Supreme Court for the plaintiffs.

United States courts of appeals | U. S. circuit judges Robert A. Katzmann, Damon J. Keith, and Sonia Sotomayor at a 2004 exhibit on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution | Fourteenth Amendment, Thurgood Marshall, and Brown v. Board of Education

But with the appointment of Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice, and Abe Fortas ( replacing Goldberg ), Warren could count on six votes in most cases.

Several people were eventually charged with rioting and attempted murder ; the main attorney who arrived in Columbia to defend Stephenson in the case was Thurgood Marshall, who would later become the first black United States Supreme Court justice.

* Thurgood Marshall District ( formerly Babe Ruth District )

BAA expanded into international operations, including retail contracts at Boston Logan International Airport and Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport ( through its subsidiary BAA USA, Inc .), and a management contract with the City of Indianapolis to run the Indianapolis International Airport ( as BAA Indianapolis, Inc .) before ultimately selling off its US division to Prospect Capital Corporation in July 2010.

ECSU enrolls nearly 2, 500 students in 37 baccalaureate programs and three masters degree programs, a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, as well as a member-institution of the University of North Carolina system.

In the November general election, he was selected by a large majority, and when home rule came into effect the following January 2, Washington was sworn in as the first popularly elected mayor by Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

* Episode 2: " Bones, Bugs and Harmony " Thurgood tries to help Mrs. Avery after assuming that she's buying dog food to feed herself.

Bob Jones University v. United States was decided May 24, 1983 in an 8-1 decision with majority opinion written by Warren E. Burger, and joined by William J. Brennan, Byron R. White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, and Sandra Day O ' Connor.

Ms. Whittington died of cancer in Washington DC on January 24, 1993 on the same day as Justice Thurgood Marshall.

The Cathedral also contains 24 faceted windows by Gabriel Loire of Chartres, France, including the Human Endeavor series depicting John Glenn, Thurgood Marshall, Jane Addams, Robert Frost, and Einstein.

* Episode 24: " Fear Of A Black Rat " Thurgood fights against Don King, Muriel's first husband, in the local rat fights.

* 1993 – Justice Thurgood Marshall

* Thurgood Marshall ( 1908 – 1993 ), an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Once the controversy and battles among students, faculty, and administration commenced — featuring lively figures such as Herbert Schiller, Herbert Marcuse, and Angela Davis -- the future of Third College would be in a turmoil that didn't fully clear until it finally received its official name, Thurgood Marshall College, in 1993.

Five Solicitors General have later served on the Supreme Court: William Howard Taft ( who was Chief Justice of the United States ), Stanley Forman Reed, Robert H. Jackson, Thurgood Marshall, and Elena Kagan.

The main attorney to defend Stephenson in the case was Thurgood Marshall, who would later become the first black United States Supreme Court justice.

The case was argued on January 6, 1940 in front of the court by Thurgood Marshall, representing four black men convicted for the murder of a white man in Florida.

It was the first case that provided an opportunity to overturn Roe since the two liberal Justices, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, were replaced with the Bush-appointed Justices David Souter and Clarence Thomas.

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Justices William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, and Lewis Powell.

The NAACP, led by the soon-to-be first black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, was successful in challenging the constitutional viability of the separate but equal doctrine, and the court voted to overturn sixty years of law that had developed under Plessy.

Justice Thurgood Marshall argued that the term " national security " was too broad to legitimize prior restraint, and also argued that it is not the Court ’ s job to create laws where the Congress had not spoken.

The airport was named after King Mohammed V of Morocco and is twinned with the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and Yaser Arafat International Airport.

Jones's last case was in 1942 when he teamed up with Thurgood Marshall to sue the Little Rock School District to obtain equal pay for a black school teacher.

They were encouraged by a 1936 case, University of Maryland v. Murray, in which Houston and Thurgood Marshall had persuaded the Maryland Court of Appeals, that state's highest court, that the University of Maryland could not meet its constitutional burden of equal treatment by offering to reimburse him for tuition out of state instead of allowing him to attend the university, which as an African American he was barred by the university's administration from doing.

" I remember the Gaines case as one of our greatest legal victories ," said Thurgood Marshall, who argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court and was later that body's first African American justice.

At times his opinions would be joined only by Thurgood Marshall, as by 1975 the two were the last remaining liberal justices of the Warren Court ( Byron White was the third survivor of the Warren Court during Rehnquist's tenure, but he often sided with the conservatives, especially on cases involving criminals and abortion ).

Brennan and Thurgood Marshall concluded in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty was, in all circumstances, unconstitutional, and never accepted the legitimacy of Gregg v. Georgia, which ruled that the death penalty was constitutional four years later.

He was a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall ( 1986 – 87 term ).

Thurgood Marshall was co-counsel.

The court opinion was written by William Rehnquist ; a dissenting opinion was written by Thurgood Marshall, who was joined by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.

Thurgood Marshall, the former NAACP attorney, was the last to argue.

Thurgood Marshall argued that this may be true, but that the real issue was that as long as separation existed, the schools would be unequal.

The keynote address, which was also the Thurgood Marshall Lecture, was presented by United States Congressman Artur Davis, a leader on issues relating to the delivery of health care services.