Thurgood Marshall
About this Library
Thurgood Marshall Branch opened July 23, 1994, replacing the Hamilton Park Branch, a one room facility in the Hamilton Park Field House and the Auburn Branch, a small storefront. Thurgood Marshall Branch, which has a reading garden, was named in memory of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
The branch has four artworks funded through the Percent for Art Ordinance administered by the City of Chicago Public Art Program: a relief sculpture, entitled The Legacy by Rene Townsend; a quilt entitled They All Had Something in Common, by Venus Blue and relief paintings by Aki Donald Baker. A sculpture entitled A Delicate Balance, by Terrence Karpowicz resides in the courtyard.