The Rev. Al Hathaway states his case: “Justice Thurgood Marshall should be to Baltimore what the Rev. Martin Luther King is to Atlanta.”

He’s been working hard to get a school the Supreme Court justice attended restored and sparkling again. Look for the Justice Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center to start construction this summer.

And how fitting that the Baltimore-born lawyer, who pressed the fabled Brown v. Board of Education case, will be honored with a $12 million restoration of the segregated school where he learned to read and write?

“This is my vision to promote the Thurgood Marshall legacy,” Hathaway said the other day as he stood outside 1315 Division St. in Upton in West Baltimore.

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