Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Georgetown University law professor Cliff Sloan, author of "The Court at War," talked about Thurgood Marshall's cases before the Supreme Court ...

President Lyndon Johnson tapped Marshall to be the country’s next Solicitor General in 1965, then nominated him for the Supreme Court in 1967. His nomination was confirmed on August 30, 1967 ...

Fifty-six years ago, Marshall became the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. During his nearly 25 years on the Court, he played a pivotal role in civil rights advocacy.

Thurgood Marshall took his place yesterday as the first Negro justice of the Supreme Court where 13 years ago he won the milestone school desegregation ruling.

The power of Marshall’s voice on the current Court, in the form of Jackson’s and Sotomayor’s dissent, showed that Thomas’s views did not carry the day with Black Americans.