He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967, serving until 1991. Marshall’s first wife, Vivian Burey Marshall, died of lung cancer in 1955 after 26 years of marriage. They had no children.

“Thurgood wins” read a headline in the Baltimore Afro-American. But long before May 17, 1954, Marshall had been using the courts, particularly in Maryland, to fight for equality.

Cecilia “Cissy” Marshall, a former NAACP legal secretary who safeguarded the reputation and legacy of her late husband, Thurgood Marshall, a towering civil rights lawyer who became the first ...

A civil rights activist herself, she guarded Thurgood Marshall’s legacy as the first Black member of the Supreme Court.

Marshall’s first wife, Vivian Burey Marshall, died of lung cancer in 1955 after 26 years of marriage. They had no children.

A July, 1946 photo of Thurgood Marshall and Vivian Burey from The AFRO American Newspaper Archives, will be on view at the Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis, Maryland, for the REVISIT ...

Nine months after the Brown decision, Marshall’s first wife, Vivian “Buster” Burey, died of cancer at the age of 44. One of the country’s most accomplished black men was suddenly a widower.

1921-1925: Attends Colored High and Training School (which became Frederick Douglass High School in 1923). 1929: Marries Vivian Burey. 1930: Graduates cum laude from Lincoln University, in Lincoln ...

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 … ...

1921-1925: Attends Colored High and Training School (which became Frederick Douglass High School in 1923). 1929: Marries Vivian Burey. 1930: Graduates cum laude from Lincoln University, in Lincoln ...