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This bill establishes the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site in Baltimore, Maryland, honoring the legacy of Thurgood Marshall, a pivotal civil rights attorney and the first African American Supreme Court Justice. The site will be Public School 103, located at 1315 Division Street, where Marshall attended elementary school, and will be managed by the Beloved Community Services Corporation as an affiliated area of the National Park System. The bill highlights Marshall's groundbreaking legal career, including his work with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he argued 29 of 32 civil rights cases before the Supreme Court, most notably the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case that ended racial segregation in public schools. The legislation authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide technical assistance and potentially enter into cooperative agreements with the management entity, but explicitly states that the Secretary cannot acquire the property or assume overall financial responsibility for the site. The purpose of the national historic site is to preserve and interpret Marshall's significant historic contributions for future generations, recognizing his crucial role in advancing civil rights and ending legal segregation in America. The bill allows for appropriations as necessary to implement its provisions and formally establishes the site's administrative framework.

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