Honor Roll

Historical marker location:

Rockville, Indiana

( Memorial is at the intersection of West Ohio Street (U.S. 36) and South Market Street (State Road 40), on the right when traveling east on West Ohio Street.)

Marker installed: 1949

Defenders of Freedom.

Indiana is the birthplace of the first black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but grew up in Indiana, where he attended high school and college.