Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2025 establishes Public School 103 in Baltimore, Maryland, as the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site. The school, now known as the Justice Thurgood Marshall School, was the site of Thurgood Marshall's elementary education and is owned and operated as a museum by the Beloved Community Services Corporation.
The site would be an affiliated area of the National Park System, not a federally owned unit. Beloved Community Services Corporation remains the owner, operator, manager, and management entity. The Secretary of the Interior may provide technical assistance and cooperative agreements, including financial assistance for marketing, marking, interpretation, and preservation. The Secretary must enter an agreement with the management entity defining roles and responsibilities, but the bill does not authorize federal acquisition of the property or overall federal financial responsibility for operations, maintenance, or management.
Who Benefits and How
Beloved Community Services Corporation benefits from national historic site recognition, National Park System affiliation, and access to Interior technical and financial assistance. Visitors, students, civil-rights educators, and Baltimore heritage tourism benefit from interpretation of Thurgood Marshall's legal career and the school associated with his childhood. The National Park Service benefits from a special-resource-study-backed affiliated area without acquiring or operating the property.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Beloved Community Services Corporation must continue owning, operating, managing, and preserving the school while coordinating with Interior under National Park System policies and standards. The Secretary of the Interior and National Park Service staff must negotiate the management agreement and administer technical assistance or cooperative agreements. Congressional appropriators bear the cost of any sums provided to carry out the Act.
Key Provisions
- Establishes the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site as an affiliated area of the National Park System.
- Defines the site as Public School 103 at 1315 Division Street in Baltimore, Maryland, using the September 2024 proposed boundary map.
- Keeps ownership, operation, and management with Beloved Community Services Corporation.
- Authorizes Interior technical assistance and cooperative agreements for marketing, marking, interpretation, and preservation.
- Bars federal acquisition or overall federal financial responsibility for the site's operation, maintenance, or management while authorizing necessary appropriations.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Establishes the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site at Public School 103 in Baltimore as an affiliated area of the National Park System, with Beloved Community Services Corporation as management entity and Interior technical, cooperative, and financial assistance authority.
Key Policy Areas
Historic Preservation, Civil Rights, National Parks, Appropriations
Primary Purpose
Establishes the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site at Public School 103 in Baltimore as an affiliated area of the National Park System, with Beloved Community Services Corporation as management entity and Interior technical, cooperative, and financial assistance authority.
Policy Domains
Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site affiliated area
Identified Gains
- Beloved Community Services Corporation
- Visitors to the Justice Thurgood Marshall School
- Civil-rights educators
- Baltimore heritage tourism organizations
- National Park Service affiliated-area staff
Identified Costs
- Beloved Community Services Corporation site managers
- Secretary of the Interior preservation staff
- Congressional appropriators
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Mfume (for himself, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Harris of Maryland, …
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Congressional appropriators, National Park Service affiliated-area staff, Secretary of the Interior preservation staff
Positive-direction: National Park Service affiliated-area staff
Negative-direction: Congressional appropriators, Secretary of the Interior preservation staff
Beloved Community Services Corporation, Beloved Community Services Corporation site managers
Positive-direction: Beloved Community Services Corporation
Negative-direction: Beloved Community Services Corporation site managers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "school"
- → Public School 103 in Baltimore
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of the Interior
- "management_entity"
- → Beloved Community Services Corporation
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Public School 103 at 1315 Division Street in Baltimore, owned and managed by Beloved Community Services Corporation.
The Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site established by section 4.
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