Marshall’s first wife, Vivian Burey Marshall, died of lung cancer in 1955 after 26 years of marriage. They had no children. The next year he married Cecilia Suyaat, a native of Hawaii who worked ...

But while Houston was neat, orderly and polite, ” Thurgood Marshall was boisterous, ... 1929: Marries Vivian Burey. 1930: Graduates cum laude from Lincoln University, in Lincoln, Pa.

Thurgood Marshall, the first black to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, ... Marshall’s first wife, Vivian Burey Marshall, died of lung cancer in 1955 after 26 years of marriage.

Cecilia ‘Cissy’ Marshall, keeper of Thurgood Marshall’s legacy, dies at 94. ... Vivian “Buster” Burey, succumbed to lung cancer. She died in February 1955. Soon thereafter, ...

For a Hawaiian, marrying Mr. Marshall, after his first wife, Vivian (Burey) Marshall, died of lung cancer at 44, meant crossing an even bigger barrier, especially after Walter White, the head of ...

Her sons, Thurgood Marshall Jr., a lawyer who served in the Clinton White House, and John W. Marshall, ... Vivian “Buster” Burey, died of cancer at the age of 44.

July 2, 1908: Born in West Baltimore. Later attends Samuel Coleridge Taylor Elementary School and Booker T. Washington Junior High. 1921-1925: Attends Colored High and Training School (which became… ...

Cecilia Marshall, who as an NAACP stenographer transcribed the legal briefs for the Brown v. Board of Education decision and then married Thurgood Marshall, the lawyer who successfully argued that ...

July 2, 1908: Born in West Baltimore. Later attends Samuel Coleridge Taylor Elementary School and Booker T. Washington Junior High. 1921-1925: Attends Colored High and Training School (which ...