Biography: Lyndon B. Johnson

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall, a longtime civil rights attorney for the NAACP, to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat of retiring justice Tom C. Clark. Marshall became the first African American in history to sit on America’s highest court when his nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 30, 1967. During his 24 years on the Supreme Court, Associate Justice Marshall consistently challenged discrimination based on race or sex, opp

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