Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to serve on the
U.S. Supreme Court was born and raised in Baltimore. As a young
attorney for the NAACP he successfully argued Brown V. Board of
Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that ruled that
schools separated on the basis of race was unconstitutional.
However, a new biography of Marshall doesn't focus on Thurgood
Marshall the lawyer, civil rights pioneer or Supreme Court
justice. "Young Thurgood, The Making of a Supreme Court Justice"
focuses on Marshall's youth in Baltimore. "This book is really
about so much what Thurgood Marshall did, as what Thurgood
Marshall was like, and the forces that shaped him, particularly
Maryland," author Larry Gibson told WBAL News. Gibson, who is an
attorney, University of Baltimore School of Law Professor and
veteran political consultant spent more than 30-years
researching and writing this book. Marshall was born in 1908 in
West Baltimore. Gibson says Marshall grew up in a city and a
state that was "schizophrenic" abou