Thurgood Marshall, the first Black to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court is the subject of a documentary that debuts on PBS Sept. 9. The […]
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This Week in Black History
October 2, 1967 U.S. Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall — whose brilliant legal work led to the Brown vs. Board of Education decision outlawing segregation in […]
This Week in Black History
August 30, 1967 The U.S. Senate confirms the appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson. Marshall becomes the […]
This Week in Black History
July 1, 1991 Georgia-born attorney Clarence Thomas is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Thurgood Marshall, the high court’s first black justice. Despite […]
This Week in Black History
June 13, 1967 Former NAACP chief counsel Thurgood Marshall – who led the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case that outlawed segregation in public […]
This Week in Black History
August 30, 1967 The U.S. Senate confirms the appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson. Marshall, who argued before […]