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Cecilia Suyat Marshall (July 20, 1928 – November 22, 2022) was an American civil rights activist and historian from Hawaii who was married to Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, from 1955 until his death in 1993. She was of Filipino descent.
Nov 22, 2022 · Cecilia “Cissy” Marshall, the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice and civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall, died on Tuesday at age 94, the court’s public information office announced....
Nov 24, 2022 · Cecilia Marshall, Rights Advocate and Widow of Justice, Dies at 94 A civil rights activist herself, she guarded Thurgood Marshall’s legacy as the first Black member of the Supreme Court....
Nov 22, 2022 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall, the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall who worked alongside the civil rights champion at the NAACP, died Tuesday at the age of 94, the Supreme Court announced.
Nov 23, 2022 · Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall, the widow of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, who was the first Black justice to serve on the Supreme Court, died on Tuesday in Falls Church, Virginia, the court announced.
Nov 22, 2022 · 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...
Aug 19, 2016 · Born in Hawaii to immigrant parents, Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat moved to New York after her father balked at her marrying a Filipino whose family spoke a different dialect.
Nov 23, 2022 · WASHINGTON — Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall, the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall who worked alongside the civil rights champion at the NAACP, died Tuesday at the age...
“Cissy,” who died on November 22, 2022, at the age of 94, will be remembered as the devoted wife of Thurgood Marshall, who served on the Supreme Court from 1967-1991, and the steward of his legacy after his death in 1993.
Nov 22, 2022 · Cecilia Suyat Marshall, the wife of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, died Tuesday in Falls Church at age 94.
