Seven years before my birth on this date in history (1967), President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated the first African American to the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall. After a heated debate, he began serving in August of that year and continued to serve for 24 years. I seem to remember when he retired and possibly even when he died in 2005.
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