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Vivian "Buster" Burey Marshall (February 11, 1911 – February 11, 1955) was an American civil rights activist and was married for 25 years, until her death, to Thurgood Marshall, lead counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who also managed Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
19. Aug. 2016 · Nine months after the Brown decision, his first wife, Vivian "Buster" Burey, died of cancer at the age of 44. One of the country's most accomplished black men was suddenly a widower.
Vivian G “Buster” Burey Marshall. Birth. 11 Feb 1911. Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA. Death. 11 Feb 1955 (aged 44) Harlem, New York County, New York, USA. Burial. Eden Cemetery. Collingdale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map. Plot. Celestine, Lot 617. Memorial ID. 201646054. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial.
13. Okt. 2017 · Thurgood Marshall met his first wife, Vivian “Buster” Burey, while she was a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and the two married not long after. Early on in their marriage, the...
Vivian "Buster" Burey dies at 44. In 1954, Thurgood Marshall's wife, "Buster," learned she was dying from lung cancer. Because Marshall was in the middle of arguing Brown v. Board of Education, Buster did not tell Marshall of her illness until after May 17, 1954 when the case was decided.
Marshall wed Vivian "Buster" Burey on September 4, 1929, while he was a student at Lincoln University. [3] : 101, 103 They remained married until her death from cancer in 1955. [2] : 180 Marshall married Cecilia "Cissy" Suyat , an NAACP secretary, eleven months later; they had two children: Thurgood Jr. and John .
22. Nov. 2022 · Marshall’s first wife, Vivien Burey, died of cancer in 1955. He and Suyat married later that year. She left the NAACP after they wed. But the marriage almost didn’t happen, she said, and not because of their 20-year age difference. She said many people still considered her to be “a foreigner,” and she worried about the ...
