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Bethany Rockafella

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Fri Oct 2, 2015, 09:16 AM Oct 2015

October 2nd, 1967-Thurgood Marshall Sworn in as the first black justice of the USSC



http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thurgood-marshall-sworn-in

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.

The great-grandson of a slave, Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1908. After being rejected from the University of Maryland Law School on account of his race, he was accepted at all-black Howard University in Washington, D.C. At Howard, he studied under the tutelage of civil liberties lawyer Charles H. Houston and in 1933 graduated first in his class. In 1936, he joined the legal division of the NAACP, of which Houston was director, and two years later succeeded his mentor in the organization’s top legal post.
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October 2nd, 1967-Thurgood Marshall Sworn in as the first black justice of the USSC (Original Post) Bethany Rockafella Oct 2015 OP
Amazing man. Le Taz Hot Oct 2015 #1
Thank you, sir. Even i you had never sat on the Supreme Court, America would still owe you so much. merrily Oct 2015 #2

Le Taz Hot

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1. Amazing man.
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 09:19 AM
Oct 2015

Argued Brown vs. Board of Education case. Tireless crusader for civil rights and social justice. And every time I think about who replaced him my stomach turns.

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