Events

Glenview-Peerless Presents Rockville’s Role in a Civil Rights Milestone

Public Information Office

March 6, 2025
11:28 am

The Glenview Mansion and Peerless Rockville Speaker Series presents a look at Rockville’s role in school desegregation in “Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP and a Civil Rights Milestone in Rockville,” from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13 at Glenview Mansion at Rockville Civic Center Park, 603 Edmonston Drive.

Peerless Rockville volunteer historian Ralph Buglass will explore how a 1936 case in a Rockville courtroom was an early step toward the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that overturned school segregation.

The talk will also examine how the case, brought about by a lawsuit by William Gibbs, a teaching principal in Rockville who sued for equal pay for Black teachers, took on national significance and helped lead to a countywide NAACP chapter.

Admission is free, but space is limited. Register using course #32190 at www.rockvillemd.gov/registration or bit.ly/PeerlessMarshallNAACP.

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