Fifty years ago, on Oct. 2, 1967, the grandson of a slave made history by taking a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court -- an opening engineered by President Lyndon B. Johnson ...

Thurgood Marshall stands behind President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House on June 13, 1967, as LBJ announces he is nominating Marshall to serve on the Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall, the great-grandson of slaves, became the first Black Supreme Court Justice in 1967, but his fight for civil rights started long before he ascended to the highest court.

Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court is shown at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, October 27, 1977. | AP Photo By Andrew Glass 08/30/2018 12:02 AM EDT ...

Thurgood Marshall and President Lyndon B. Johnson meet regarding announcement of Marshall's nomination as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, June 13, 1967. Frank Wolfe / LBJ Library ...

Thurgood Marshall became the first Black justice to be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court on this day in history, August 30, 1967. President Lyndon B. Johnson first appointed Marshall to ...

On June 13, 1967, as he planned to announce his nomination of Thurgood Marshall as the first black Supreme Court justice, Johnson sounded confident in his selection but curious about how it would ...

PBS will debut a powerful new documentary honoring one of the most transformative legal minds in American history. Becoming ...

Maryland lawmakers push for Justice Thurgood Marshall's school to be ... he became the first African American to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Johnson officially nominated Marshall as his replacement the next day. 9. MARSHALL HAD TO UNDERGO AN INTENSE SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARING BEFORE TAKING HIS SEAT ON THE SUPREME COURT.

President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall as the first Black justice on the Supreme Court in 1967, and he sat on the bench for over two decades before he retired 1991. He died in 1993.