Lyndon
Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Marshall was
confirmed by Congress 69-11 and sworn in on August 30, making him the first
African-American to sit on the Supreme Court.
The great-grandson of slaves, he
became an attorney and argued cases before the Supreme Court, winning 29 of
them, including the ground breaking Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
He
served 24 years on the Court.
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