DIED. Thurgood Marshall, 84, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice; in Bethesda, Maryland. Born in Baltimore, Marshall graduated first in his class at Howard Law School and sued successfully to integrate the University of Maryland law school, which had rejected him because he was black. He won 29 of 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board of Education, which declared an end to public school segregation, and in 1967 he became the Supreme Court's first black Justice. Marshall was a voice for minorities and women and an advocate for affirmative action and abortion rights. "I am not free," he said upon retiring in 1991, having judged a nation only to find it still wanting.