Thurgood Marshall

Baltimore native Thurgood Marshall is an American legal legend for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, and for later becoming the nation’s first black Supreme Court justice. In Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice, University of Maryland law professor Larry S. Gibson delivers the definitive look at Marshall’s Maryland years. Original airdate 12/12/12

Baltimore native Thurgood Marshall is an American legal legend for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, and for later becoming the nation’s first black Supreme Court justice. In Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice, University of Maryland law professor Larry S. Gibson delivers the definitive look at Marshall’s Maryland years.

In 2005, BWI Airport in Anne Arundel County was re-named BWI-Thurgood Marshall Airport, honoring our nation’s first African-American Supreme Court Justice. Among Marshall’s many accomplishments, in 1933, he sued the University of Maryland law school to admit its first African-American student.