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Thurgood Marshall
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1967 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1967 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.