University of Maryland Law Library Installs Thurgood Marshall Exhibit
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice and a Baltimore native, the University of Maryland School of Law is on September 19, 2008 installing a permanent exhibit, entitled "Thurgood Marshall's Early Career in Maryland: 1933-37."
The exhibit was put together by Larry S. Gibson, Esquire, a Marshall scholar, a professor at the law school, and a lawyer in private practice with the Baltimore and Washington firm of Shapiro, Sher, Guinot & Sandler.
The installation of the exhibit also coincides with the 70th anniversary of the graduation from the law school of its first African-American student, Donald G. Murray, whose admission followed a Court of Appeals case argued by Marshall, the 30th anniversary of the successful effort to rename the law library after Justice Marshall, and the law school's second black alumni reunion and symposium.
The exhibit, which occupies nine panels, will be displayed in the library with a collection of photographs from Marshall's entire life (1908-93). |
