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Marshall marries Vivian "Buster" Burey. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education was decided, its importance in American legal and political history remains in question. It is certainly one of the most famous cases ever decided by the United States Supreme Court, ranking with Marbury v. Madison or Miranda v.
Nov 25, 2022 · Cecilia “Cissy” Marshall, the Filipino American wife of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice and civil rights hero Thurgood Marshall, and a civil rights activist herself, died on Tuesday, Nov. 22 at age 94. She was born Cecilia Suyat in 1928 in Pu’unene, Maui, Hawaii, to parents who immigrated from the Philippines in 1910.
Suyat met Thurgood Marshall and then married him in 1955 after Marshall's previous wife, Vivian Burey, died of lung cancer. Suyat married Marshall on Dec. 17, 1955. Roy Wilkins, secretary of the NAACP, presided over the service at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Harlem, New York. Visitors to their apartment included Martin Luther King Jr ...
Thurgood Marshall Sr. Jurist, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice. He served in that position from October 1967 until October 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African American justice and is best remembered for his jurisprudence in the fields of civil rights and criminal procedure. Born Thoroughgood Marshall, his father was a...
The Vivian Burey Marshall Academy (VBMA) in partnership with the Army Research Laboratories (ARL) and Army Educational Outreach Programs (AEOP) was created to engage students in underrepresented and disadvantaged populations in Vicksburg, MS and Baltimore, MD in STEM education, leading to both STEM literacy and an increase in the participation ...
Vivien "Buster" Burey Marshall. Vivian "Buster" Burey Marshall ( Filadélfia, 11 de fevereiro de 1911 – 11 de fevereiro de 1955) foi uma ativista estado-unidense que atuou a favor dos direitos civis e foi casada por 25 anos, até o dia de sua morte, com Thurgood Marshall, o presidente do Fundo educacional e de Defesa jurídica da NAACP, que ...
Jan 1, 1970 · Vivian Burey Marshall January 01, 1970 Vivian "Buster" Burey Marshall (February 11, 1911 – February 11, 1955) was an American civil rights activist and was married for 25 years, until her death, to Thurgood Marshall , lead counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund , who also managed
