Biography

Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was married to Cissy Marshall and Vivien Burey. He died on January 24, 1993 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

His first name was originally Thoroughgood, but in his early years of school, he hated spelling it out. When he was in the second or third grade, he got his mother to legally shorten it to Thurgood.

In 1967, he became the first black American ever to be named to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, serving from 1967-1991.

My dad told me there's no difference between a black snake and a white snake. They both bite.