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Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991...
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1967
6.13.1967
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
8.30.1967
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
10.2.1967
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.