Cecilia Suyat Marshall was a Hawaii-born American civil rights activist and historian who was married to Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American United States Supreme Court Justice, from 1955 until his death in 1993.
Marshall was of Filipino ancestry. Suyat’s life is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and she was interviewed by the Library of Congress about her experiences with civil rights in the United States. Marshall worked as a stenographer and private secretary for the NAACP in Washington, D.C., in the 1940s and 1950s.
Suyat spent her life preserving history and fighting for civil rights even after her husband died. She thought there was still a long way to go. On June 30, 2013, Suyat participated in an oral history interview for the Library of Congress, which was conducted by Emilye Crosby in Washington, D.C. Suyat’s story is now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
Cecilia Suyat Marshall Cause Of Death
The cause of death for Cecilia Suyat Marshall has not yet been revealed. Suyat died on November 22, 2022, in Falls Church, Virginia, at the age of 94.