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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cecilia "Cissy" Suyat Marshall, the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall who worked alongside the civil rights

The NAACP chose Martin Luther King Day to announce the Marshall-Motley Scholars Program, named for the Supreme Court justice and for Constance Baker Motley, who was an LDF attorney just a few years out of Columbia University Law School when she wrote the initial complaint that led to the courts Brown v. Board of Education ruling outlawing racial segregation in public schools. She later became the first Black woman federal judge. “Our country continues to be plagued with racial injustice, and ...

The 50 scholarship recipients must commit to eight years of racial justice work in the South.