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Peerless Presents ‘Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP in Rockville’ 

Montgomery County Court House and a portrait of Thurgood Marshall

Peerless Rockville in November presents a look at Rockville’s role in school desegregation. 

In “Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP in Rockville,” from 10-11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 at the Grey Courthouse, 27 Courthouse Square, Peerless Rockville volunteer historian Ralph Buglass will explore how a 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 illustrated talk examines how 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. The program will be held in the historic courtroom, recently restored to appear as it did when future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and NAACP chief counsel Charles Hamilton Houston argued the case there in 1937. 

Admission is free. Space is limited. Register at peerlessrockville.org

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