In August of 1967, Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as Supreme Court Justice. Marshall became the first African American in the country to hold this position. He is known for his victory before the ...

In 1940, Thurgood Marshall is a young lawyer for the NAACP who criss-crosses the country defending innocent African-Americans from unjust indictments in court. His latest case is in Bridgeport ...

Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall, the great-grandson of a slave, to sit on the highest ...

Boulware, Thurgood Marshall ... a book entitled Black Monday which outlined their simple beliefs: African Americans were inferior to whites and the races must remain separate.