Editing Thurgood Marshall (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Thurgood Marshall and family, 1965.png|alt=Refer to caption|thumb|upright|Marshall, his wife [[Cecilia Suyat Marshall|Cissy]], and their children [[John W. Marshall|John]] (bottom left) and [[Thurgood Marshall Jr.|Thurgood Jr.]] (bottom right), 1965]]

Marshall wed [[Vivian Burey Marshall|Vivian "Buster" Burey]] on September 4, 1929, while he was a student at Lincoln University.<ref name="Gibson-2012" />{{Rp|pages=101, 103}} They remained married until her death from cancer in 1955.<ref name="Davis-1992" />{{Rp|page=180}} Marshall married [[Cecilia Suyat Marshall|Cecilia "Cissy" Suyat]], an NAACP secretary, eleven months later; they had two children: [[Thurgood Marshall Jr.|Thurgood Jr.]] and [[John W. Marshall|John]].<ref name="Davis-1992" />{{Rp|page=|pages=180–181}} Thurgood Jr. became an attorney and worked in the [[Clinton administration]], and John directed the [[United States Marshals Service|U.S. Marshals Service]] and served as [[Virginia Secretary of Public Safety|Virginia's secretary of public safety]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=DeNeen L. |date=August 19, 2016 |title=A Colorblind Love |pages=B2 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1812382061 |access-date=August 11, 2022|id={{ProQuest|1812382061}} }}</ref>

Marshall was an active member of the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]] and served as a delegate to its 1964 convention, walking out after a resolution to recognize a right to disobey immoral segregation laws was voted down.<ref name="Tushnet-1997" />{{Rp|page=180}} He was a [[Prince Hall Freemasonry|Prince Hall Mason]], attending meetings and participating in rituals.<ref name="Tushnet-1997" />{{Rp|page=180}} He refused to attend the Supreme Court's annual Christmas party believing that it infringed upon the separation of church and state.<ref name="Ball-1998" />{{Rp|pages=343}}

Justice [[Sandra Day O'Connor]], who served with Marshall on the Supreme Court for a decade, wrote that "it was rare during our conference deliberations that he would not share an anecdote, a joke or a story"; although O'Connor initially treated the stories as "welcome diversions", she later "realized that behind most of the anecdotes was a relevant legal point".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=O'Connor |first=Sandra Day |author-link=Sandra Day O'Connor |date=Summer 1992 |title=Thurgood Marshall: The Influence of a Raconteur |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/stflr44&div=50&id=&page= |journal=[[Stanford Law Review]] |volume=44 |issue=6 |pages=1217–1220|doi=10.2307/1229051 |jstor=1229051 }}</ref>{{Rp|page=1217–1218}}