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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 791
To establish the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site in the
State of Maryland as an affiliated area of the National Park System,
and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY27, 2025
Mr. V
ANHOLLEN(for himself and Ms. ALSOBROOKS) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources
A BILL
To establish the Justice Thurgood Marshall National His-
toric Site in the State of Maryland as an affiliated area
of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Justice Thurgood Mar-4
shall National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. 6
(a) F
INDINGS.—Congress finds that— 7
(1) Thurgood Marshall— 8
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(A) led the National Association for the 1
Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense 2
and Educational Fund from 1940 to 1961; and 3
(B) successfully argued 29 of 32 civil 4
rights cases before the United States Supreme 5
Court, including the landmark 1954 Brown v. 6
Board of Education case that ended racial seg-7
regation of public schools; 8
(2) President John F. Kennedy appointed 9
Thurgood Marshall to serve as a judge on the 10
United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit 11
from 1961 to 1965; 12
(3) President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed 13
Thurgood Marshall to serve as United States Solic-14
itor General from 1965 to 1967; 15
(4) nominated by President Lyndon Johnson 16
and confirmed by the Senate, Thurgood Marshall be-17
came the first African American to serve on the 18
United States Supreme Court, serving as an Asso-19
ciate Justice from 1967 to 1991; 20
(5) as a result of his long legal career, 21
Thurgood Marshall is credited with ending legal seg-22
regation in the United States; 23
(6) Public School 103, now known as the ‘‘Jus-24
tice Thurgood Marshall School’’, located at 1315 Di-25
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vision Street in Baltimore, Maryland, was the site of 1
the elementary education of Thurgood Marshall; 2
(7) the Justice Thurgood Marshall School is 3
owned and operated as a museum by the Beloved 4
Community Services Corporation, which has com-5
pleted a historic restoration for adaptive reuse of the 6
School; 7
(8) Congress authorized the National Park 8
Service to prepare a special resource study of Public 9
School 103 in 2019 which was transmitted by the 10
National Park Service to Congress in 2023; and 11
(9) in the special resource study referred to in 12
paragraph (8), the National Park Service found that 13
Public School 103 met the criteria for national sig-14
nificance and suitability for addition to the National 15
Park System. 16
(b) P
URPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to pre-17
serve, protect, and interpret for the benefit of future gen-18
erations the significant historic contributions of Justice 19
Thurgood Marshall by— 20
(1) establishing the elementary school attended 21
by Marshall as a national historic site; and 22
(2) providing for the administration of the Na-23
tional Historic Site as an affiliated area of the Na-24
tional Park System. 25
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SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 1
In this Act: 2
(1) M
ANAGEMENT ENTITY .—The term ‘‘man-3
agement entity’’ means the management entity for 4
the National Historic Site designated by section 5
4(e). 6
(2) N
ATIONAL HISTORIC SITE.—The term ‘‘Na-7
tional Historic Site’’ means the Justice Thurgood 8
Marshall National Historic Site established by sec-9
tion 4(a). 10
(3) S
CHOOL.—The term ‘‘School’’ means the 11
building located at 1315 Division Street in Balti-12
more, Maryland, known as Public School 103, which 13
is owned and managed by the Beloved Community 14
Services Corporation, a nonprofit organization estab-15
lished in Baltimore, Maryland. 16
(4) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 17
the Secretary of the Interior. 18
SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JUSTICE THURGOOD MAR-19
SHALL NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE. 20
(a) I
NGENERAL.—There is established as an affili-21
ated area of the National Park System the Justice 22
Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site. 23
(b) B
OUNDARY.—The National Historic Site shall 24
consist of the School, as generally depicted on the map 25
entitled ‘‘Justice Thurgood Marshall School National His-26
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toric Site Proposed Boundary’’, numbered 962/194939, 1
and dated September 2024. 2
(c) O
WNERSHIP.—The School shall continue to be 3
owned, operated, and managed by the Beloved Community 4
Services Corporation. 5
(d) A
DMINISTRATION.—The National Historic Site 6
shall be managed in a manner consistent with— 7
(1) this Act; and 8
(2) the laws generally applicable to units of the 9
National Park System. 10
(e) M
ANAGEMENT ENTITY.—The Beloved Commu-11
nity Services Corporation shall be the management entity 12
for the National Historic Site. 13
(f) A
GREEMENTS.—The Secretary— 14
(1) may provide technical assistance to, and 15
enter into cooperative agreements with, the manage-16
ment entity for the purpose of providing financial 17
assistance for the marketing, marking, interpreta-18
tion, and preservation of the National Historic Site; 19
and 20
(2) shall enter into an agreement with the man-21
agement entity that delineates the roles and respon-22
sibilities for the management of the area consistent 23
with the policies and standards that apply to units 24
of the National Park System. 25
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(g) LIMITEDROLE OF THESECRETARY.—Nothing in 1
this Act authorizes the Secretary— 2
(1) to acquire the School; or 3
(2) to assume overall financial responsibility for 4
the operation, maintenance, or management of the 5
National Historic Site. 6
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 7
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 8
as are necessary to carry out this Act. 9
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