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-Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr., President and CEO
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A Justice for Justice Judge Alexander Williams Jr. has dedicated his career to shaping social reform.
When Alexander Williams, Jr. was young, he spent summers in Merrifield, Virginia, with his grandfather. An elevator operator at the Merrifield Superior Court, his grandfather shared stories about civil rights lawyers and cases. “That got me excited about law, which caused me to eventually set my goal on being a lawyer,” Williams says. While he didn’t personally experience unrest related to the civil rights movement growing up in Washington, D.C., Williams learned in school about issues [...]
There’s an effort to turn Thurgood Marshall’s former school into a national historic site
There's an effort underway to turn the Justice Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center into a national historic site. The center located in West Baltimore is where Thurgood Marshall went to elementary school. The center is located on Division Street, not too far from where the civil rights icon grew up. More than 200 people signed an online petition in favor of the site becoming a national historic site. Plus, Congressman Kweisi Mfume along with Senators Chris Van [...]
Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center opens in Baltimore
President of the Finn Group, LaRian Finney, served as master of ceremony for the event, and the program began and ended in prayer by Bishop Dennis Proctor of the AME Zion Church. The emotional opening of the building featured news clippings with remarks by United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man appointed to America’s highest court in 1967. Marshall was appointed by then U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and served 23 years.
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