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Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP in Rockville

November 2 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Free

Experience history in the same courtroom where Thurgood Marshall argued for equal pay for Montgomery County’s Black teachers, a pivotal case led by the NAACP that marked the first of its kind in the nation. Peerless Rockville’s volunteer historian Ralph Buglass will illuminate the significance of the Gibbs case as an essential milestone for the Brown v. Board of Education decision that ended school segregation. Read more about Justice Thurgood on this Montgomery County Media spotlight. Free.

Details

Date:
November 2
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://peerlessrockville.org/events/thurgood-marshall-and-the-naacp-in-rockville/

Venue

Red Brick Courthouse
29 Courthouse Square
Rockville, 20850 United States
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Phone
(301) 762-0096
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