The 74-year-old litigator is a first-time screenwriter with “Marshall ... Justice Thurgood Marshall, out Friday. Even more overwhelming for the man who boasts a 50-year background fighting ...

The real black superhero carries a briefcase filled with law books and a copy of the U.S. Constitution in his jacket pocket. His name is Thurgood ... background in criminal law. This meant ...

April 10: At the Academy Awards the best picture is "A Man for All ... interracial marriages. June 13: Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first black Supreme Court justice.

Decades before Thurgood Marshall was sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court on October 2, 1967, the man who would become its first Black justice had already transformed American law. Known as “Mr ...

There was another Black voice echoing throughout the Supreme Court that day, the only other Black justice in the history of the Court: Thurgood Marshall ... working for a picture of smiling ...

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 ...

The first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court is likely to face questioning at her Senate hearing that would have been familiar to Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man who served on the ...

Although dozens of newspapers called for Black’s resignation, he remained on the court. And three decades later, the former Klan member helped Thurgood Marshall make history, swearing him in as ...

Although not consciously done, I was applying for and entering law school at a particularly important point in cultural and jurisprudence history—Thurgood Marshall—the first Black Supreme ...