Thurgood Marshall was a legendary civil rights lawyer and activist who served as America’s first Black Supreme Court Justice. Marshall grew up just south of Greater Mondawmin in the Upton neighborhood of West Baltimore. Marshall attended the “Colored High and Training School,” graduating in 1925 with the last class from the Saint Paul and Saratoga Street location before the school moved to Sandtown and changed its name to Frederick Douglass High School. In 1954, the school would move to its current location in Greater Mondawmin. After leaving Baltimore, Marshall became one of America’s preeminent lawyers, arguing many landmark civil cases on behalf of the NAACP. Most famously, Marshall represented the Brown family in their historic 1954 victory in Brown V. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in schools. He went on to serve as federal judge appointed by John F. Kennedy, eventually being appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967. He held that historic post, where he fought for civil rights, personal liberties, and equal protections, until his retirement in 1991. He passed away in Maryland in 1993. Countless buildings, programs, scholarships, and even an airport in the Baltimore area have been named after Marshall. As his life story is too filled with achievements to fully detail here, we have linked a short biography below.