12-3-12: Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice

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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.

Larry Gibson has served on the faculty of that law school for 39 years, and it was he who led the fight to pass the legislation that re-named the airport in honor of Justice Marshall. A scholar of the history of black lawyers in Maryland, Mr. Gibson has written a book about the early life and career of Thurgood Marshall. He joins Tom Hall in the studio to talk about the book, Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice.

Gibson will speak at the Enoch Pratt Central Library on December 13 at 7 p.m. More information on that here.