This Day In History - Thurgood Marshall First Black Supreme Court Justice 1967

Thurgood Marshall First Black Supreme Court Justice 1967

Monday, October 2, 2023

All Day

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Event Description

Chief Justice Earl Warren swears in Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s and '50s, Marshall was the architect and executor of the legal strategy that ended the era of official racial segregation.

Event Location

Washington D.C.