Cecilia Suyat Marshal was an American civil rights activist and historian. She was married to Thurgood Marshall the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice. She attended the University of Columbia to become a stenographer but ended up becoming the private secretary of Dr Gloster B Current the head of NAACP from 1948 to 1955. She participated in the historic Brown v. Board of Education case. Marshall’s life is featured in the National Museum of African American History and Culture at th... moreCecilia Suyat Marshal was an American civil rights activist and historian. She was married to Thurgood Marshall the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice. She attended the University of Columbia to become a stenographer but ended up becoming the private secretary of Dr Gloster B Current the head of NAACP from 1948 to 1955. She participated in the historic Brown v. Board of Education case. Marshall’s life is featured in the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian. She was recorded by the Library Congress regarding her experience with the civil rights in the United States. Suyat spent her life preserving history and fighting for civil rights, she gave oral history interview for the Library of Congress. She attended the opening of a new school building for the Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change in New York City’s Harlem neighbourhood in 2004.
Born in Pununene, Maui in Hawaii, she started to work for the NAACP in Washington when she moved to New York to live with her uncle and aunt. Suyat is mother to John W Marshall a former Virginia Secretary of Public Safety and former U.S Marshals Service Director.
