Thurgood Marshall was not happy ... Court and won 29 of them — an unparalleled record that President Lyndon Johnson touted when he nominated him to the Court in 1967. That’s when Marshall ...

Thurgood Marshall became the first Black justice to be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court on this day in history, August 30, 1967. President Lyndon B. Johnson first appointed Marshall to ...

Whittington had met President Lyndon B. Johnson ... Bettmann//Getty Images President Johnson and Judge Thurgood Marshall, 1965. In a twist of fate that seems almost scripted, Whittington and ...

Thurgood Marshall was a titan of the legal ... to fight against discrimination in education. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed him to the Supreme Court, making him the first African ...

This half hour documentary explores the life of Franklin Williams that includes archival, Oval Office audio of President Lyndon Johnson and then-Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall discussing ...

The article’s opening sentence reads: "Lyndon Johnson used the word a lot ... LBJ in 1967 appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court’s as its first black justice.

Regarding Scott Paulo’s letter quoting Lyndon Baines Johnson ... biographer Robert Dallek writes Johnson explained his decision to nominate Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court rather than ...

In May 1954, Thurgood Marshall triumphed at the Supreme Court ... The couple settled in the Washington area in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson tapped him as U.S. solicitor general.

She married Thurgood Marshall in 1955. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Thurgood Marshall died in 1993, two years after retiring from the Supreme Court.

Donation Options Search Search Search Thurgood Marshall meets with President Lyndon Johnson to discuss his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967. SHOWTIME Share The four-part Showtime ...

Over 200 people crowded into the newly built Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center for ... Marshall was appointed by then U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and served 23 years. Among the attendees ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The Supreme Court justice’s vision is betrayed daily in an America in which schools remain separate and unequal.