Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund
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| Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | TMSF |
| Type | NGO |
| Purpose/focus | educational funding |
| Website | www.thurgoodmarshallfund.org |
Thurgood Marshall successfully argued the 1954 landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, ordering desegregation of public schools. He later became the first African-American appointed to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund ("TMSF") was established in 1987 to carry on Justice Thurgood Marshall's legacy of equal access to higher education by supporting exceptional merit scholars attending America's public historically black colleges and universities. The Fund was renamed the Thurgood Marshall College Fund in 2006. Fifty-four schools are members of the TMCF, including Thurgood Marshall's alma mater Lincoln University, PA , and many of the nation's largest and most prestigious institutions of higher education.[1]
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund has awarded more than $50 million in scholarships, capacity building and programmatic support. More than 5,000 Thurgood Marshall Scholars have graduated and are making valuable contributions to science, technology, government, human service, business, education and various communities.
Alumni of TMCF member schools include civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson; CBS News "60 Minutes" correspondent Ed Bradley; NFL football great Walter Payton; actress Lynn Whitfield; opera star Jessye Norman, and astronaut Ronald McNair. McNair died in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in January 1986.
[edit] Corporate Leadership Awards
Corporate Leadership Awards are given by TMCF in recognition of the commitment of a business to the TMCF, its 45 member institutions and the students educated at those schools.[2]
- 1995 Wal-Mart Stores
- 1996 Time Warner Inc.
- 1997 Reebok International Ltd.
- 1998 Aetna Retirement Services
- 1999 Philip Morris Companies
- 2000 Sony Music Entertainment
- 2001 MBNA Corporation
- 2002 UBS PaineWebber, Inc.
- 2003 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC
- 2004 Hewlett-Packard Company
- 2005 Philip Morris Companies[3]
- 2006 Microsoft[4]
[edit] References
- ^ TMSF member schools (accessed October 26, 2006)
- ^ Award Recipients, 1995 - 2004 (accessed October 26, 2006)
- ^ TMCF press release, dated September 26, 2005 (accessed October 26, 2006)
- ^ Microsoft press release (accessed October 26, 2006)
- History of TMSF (accessed October 26, 2006)
