BHM Fact #11 Thurgood Marshall: First Black Supreme Court Justice
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Thurgood Marshall’s journey to the Supreme Court began as a child. From a young age, Marshall’s parents emphasized the importance of education, the Constitution, and the rule of law. His...
show moreFrom a young age, Marshall’s parents emphasized the importance of education, the Constitution, and the rule of law. His father, a railroad porter, took Thurgood and his brother to watch court cases in their hometown of Baltimore.
After dinner, Marshall’s mother, a schoolteacher, would join the three in a debate about the cases they’d watched that day and other current events.
Marshall credited his father with turning him into a lawyer, saying that his father “did it by teaching me to argue, by challenging my logic on every point, by making me prove every statement I made.” Marshall would become the first Black Supreme Court justice in 1967, nominated by President Johnson.
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