Thurgood Marshall was first black Supreme Court justice
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Thurgood Marshall was first black Supreme Court justice.
Thurgood Marshall was officially sworn in as America's first black Supreme Court justice this week in 1967. Appointed by then-President Lyndon Johnson, Marshall's confirmation hearings were highly contentious, thanks to a bloc of southern senators opposed to any black man sitting on the land's hi. Read Thurgood Marshall was first black Supreme Court justice...
