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This Day in Legal History: Thurgood Marshall Joins the Court
On October 2, 1967, Chief Justice Earl Warren swore in Thurgood Marshall as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, the first Black justice in the Court’s history. President Lyndon Johnson had nominated him to replace Justice Tom Clark, and the Senate confirmed him that August by a vote of 69 to 11.
Marshall arrived at the Court having already changed it from the other side of the bench. As chief counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, he argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court and won 29 of them, including…
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