Jan. 11 -- Thurgood Marshall to Appear at Society

On Friday, January 11 at 7:00 p.m., Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall walks on the stage at the Historical Society as our winter living history performance season continues. Dr. Lenneal Henderson, a distinguished Professor of Government at the University of Baltimore portrays Maryland’s famous civil rights advocate during this engaging program. The Justice became involved in cases to desegregate public schools in South Carolina which would become one of the five cases settled by the 1954 Supreme Court case of Brown v Board of Education. Marshall was eventually appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. This free program is sponsored by the Maryland Humanities Council.