Thurgood Marshall: Trail-Blazing Civil Rights Victory
Virtual Zoom Event MD, United StatesJoin history aficionado, Ralph Buglass, on February 2nd at 7:00 p.m. as we begin our celebration of Black History Month. One of the first successful legal challenges to school segregation occurred right here in Montgomery County in 1937. Civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall sued Montgomery County School Board and Superintendent Edwin Broome for equal pay on behalf of Willian B. Gibbs, principal and teacher at Rockville Colored Elementary School. This little-known legal case has [...]