This outdoor memorial dedicated to Thurgood Marshall is located at Lawyer's Mall across from the public entrance to the Maryland State House. Marshall was a native of Baltimore, earned his law degree from Howard University in DC, and then returned to Baltimore to work with the NAACP there. In 1935, he successfully argued for the admission of Donald Murray to the University of Maryland School of Law. He also argued several landmark cases before the U.S. Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education, Shelley v. Kraemer, and many more. He also of course was the first Black Supreme Court Justice, serving from 1967-1991. The location of the memorial is almost where the Maryland Court of Appeals stood in 1935, when Marshall argued the Murray case. The memorial was designed by a Maryland artist (Toby Mendez) and includes an 8-foot statue of Marshall as a young lawyer. Behind him are pillars with the inscription "Equal Justice Under Law," and before him are two benches. On one of the benches sits a statue of Donald Murray, and on the other bench sit the figures of two children representing who Marshall was fighting for when arguing Brown v. Board of Education. There is also a circle in the center of the square that contains text explaining some of the above context about the memorial. This memorial is great and well worth a visit if you're in the area. read more