Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, during a period when racial segregation and discrimination were deeply entrenched in American society. Marshall’s early exposure to the ...

Thurgood Marshall stands as one of America's most influential legal minds, world knew as "Mr. Civil Rights," led to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education.

In 1933, African American lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, dean of Howard University’s Law School, assembled an all-Black legal defense team for a murder trial at the Loudoun County Courthouse. The ...

This included the development of legal strategies for the fight against segregation by Howard University College of Law deans Charles Hamilton Houston and William Hastie, along with alumnus Thurgood ...

The road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and ...

This included the development of legal strategies for the fight against segregation by Howard University College of Law deans Charles ... Houston and William Hastie, along with alumnus Thurgood ...

but all roads lead back to her time at Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Though Alexander was born in Houston, she grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana. But Houston was ...

The NAACP and its leaders, including White, WEB DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, and Charles Hamilton Houston, created a blueprint for America to follow to live up to its ideals. On March 26 ...

His latest book is Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation (Bloomsbury, 2010). In the coming weeks, publishers will release several ...