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Associate Justice, Baltimore, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brown v. Board of Education, first African-American justice, Frederick Douglass High School, Howard University School of Law, Key Yemaya Walker, Maryland, President Johnson, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vivian "Buster" Burey
Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court’s 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.