Findings and purposes

(a) Findings Congress finds that— (1) Thurgood Marshall— (A) led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 1940 to 1961; and (B) successfully argued 29 of 32 civil rights cases before the United States Supreme Court, including the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case that ended racial segregation of public schools; (2) President John F. Kennedy appointed Thurgood Marshall to serve as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit from 1961 to 1965; (3) President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to serve as United States Solicitor General from 1965 to 1967; (4) nominated by President Lyndon Johnson and confirmed by the Senate, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to serve on the United States Supreme Court, serving as an Associate Justice from 1967 to 1991; (5) as a result of his long legal career, Thurgood Marshall is credited with ending legal segregation in the United States; (6) Public School 103, now known as the Justice Thurgood Marshall School, located at 1315 Division Street in Baltimore, Maryland, was the site of the elementary education of Thurgood Marshall; (7) the Justice Thurgood Marshall School is owned and operated as a museum by the Beloved Community Services Corporation, which has completed a historic restoration for adaptive reuse of the School; (8) Congress authorized the National Park Service to prepare a special resource study of Public School 103 in 2019 which was transmitted by the National Park Service to Congress in 2023; and (9) in the special resource study referred to in paragraph (8), the National Park Service found that Public School 103 met the criteria for national significance and suitability for addition to the National Park System. (b) Purpose The purpose of this Act is to preserve, protect, and interpret for the benefit of future generations the significant historic contributions of Justice Thurgood Marshall by— (1) establishing the elementary school attended by Marshall as a national historic site; and (2) providing for the administration of the National Historic Site as an affiliated area of the National Park System.