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Vivian "Buster" Burey dies at 44. In 1954, Thurgood Marshall's wife, "Buster," learned she was dying from lung cancer. Because Marshall was in the middle of arguing Brown v. Board of Education, Buster did not tell Marshall of her illness until after May 17, 1954 when the case was decided. Vivian "Buster" Burey died nine months later on February ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall on November 22, 2022. Ms. Marshall was the wife of LDF’s founder and the nation’s first Black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a former staff member and long-standing LDF board member, and a tireless devotee to the cause of equal justice.
WASHINGTON, DC – September 27, 2016—Today, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s (TMCF) Vivian Burey Marshall (VBM) STEM Pilot Initiative announces fifty 6th through 9th grade students in Vicksburg, Miss. and Baltimore, Md. completed the first year of the STEM Pilot Initiative launched last September.
Apr 28, 2022 · About Vivien G Marshall. The first wife of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. There were no children from this union. Daughter of Christopher H Burey (born in St Ann's, Jamaica) and Maude Stuart-Burey-Jones born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.∼Civil Rights Activist. Parents: Maud E. Steward Burey Jones and Christopher Hamilton Burey ...
Vivian Augustus Marshall (later Fries and Millett, March 18, 1888 – May 18, 1969) was an American diver, vaudeville performer and film actress. Born in California, Marshall's family moved to Oregon during her youth and she gained notoriety for her aquatic skills while a member of the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland and later performed public stunt dives from heights of 70 feet and above.
Suyat met Thurgood Marshall, then married him in 1955 after Marshall's previous wife, Vivian Burey, died of lung cancer. Suyat married Marshall on December 17, 1955.[4] Roy Wilkins, who was secretary of the NAACP, presided over the service at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Harlem, New York.
Oct 13, 2017 · Thurgood Marshall met his first wife, Vivian “Buster” Burey, while she was a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and the two married not long after. Early on in their marriage, the ...
