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#OTD: Thurgood Marshall Makes History on the Supreme Court
Episode 1685
Published 10 months, 2 weeks ago
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On this day in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court, marking a historic moment in American history. A brilliant legal mind and longtime NAACP attorney, Marshall successfully argued key civil rights cases before the Court, including Brown v. Board of Education. He later served 24 years as a justice, championing civil rights, abortion access, and the rights of the accused.
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