Thurgood Marshall #1641
$ 8.00
Caption from poster__
" None of us got where we are solely by pulling
ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns bent down and helped us pick up our boots."
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Prior to being a jurist, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for his victory in the Brown v. Board of Education case. Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908. His original name was Thoroughgood but he shortened it to Thurgood in second grade. His father, William Marshall, instilled in him an appreciation for the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law. Additionally, as a child, he was punished for his school misbehavior by being forced to read the Constitution, which he later said piqued his interest in the document. Marshall was the grandson of a slave. Marshall was married twice; to Vivian "Buster" Burey from 1929 until her death from cancer in February 1955 and to Cecilia "Cissy" Suyat from December 1955 until his own death in 1993. He had two sons from his second marriage [1]; Thurgood Marshall Jr., a former top aide to President Bill Clinton, and John W. Marshall, who is a former United States Marshals Service Director, and since 2002 has served as Virginia Secretary of Public Safety under Governors Mark Warner and Tim Kaine.
