2nd of October 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court. FULL VIDEO ON CIVIL RIGHTS IN USA HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CgM...#onthisday#history#mannymandoeshistory#usa#civilrights#blm#thurgoodmarshall
#AlphabetChallenge#ThurgoodMarshall#RuthBaderGinsburg#USSupremeCourt#WeekFforFaces Great American heroes. Sorely missed.
Double bronzes by Antonio Tobias Mendez, at the Thurgood Marshall Memorial. Titled: Brown versus Board of Education May 17, 1954. #ThurgoodMarshall#USSupremeCourt#CivilRights#Education#AlphabetChallenge#WeekDforDoubles
“Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of…corrective amendments” Justice Thurgood Marshall born #OTD#ushistory#AfAmHist#ThurgoodMarshall#SCOTUS
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (1489), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Hermann Hesse (1877), Alec Douglas-Home (1903), Olav V of Norway (1903), #ThurgoodMarshall#OnThisDay...
Today in History: June 13, Johnson nominates Marshall to become first Black Supreme Court justice #TodayInHistory #06131967 #ThurgoodMarshall #AP apnews.com/article/today-in-history-june-13-2f3417f5ab6464067e60ed4b9bcbd107
In memory of Justice Thurgood Marshall, who died Jan 24, 1993. The 1st Black SCOTUS justice, he was vital in ending legal segregation through 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education. "The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis." #ThurgoodMarshall#quote
October 2nd 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court. FULL VIDEO ON CIVIL RIGHTS IN USA HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CgMxy4Arj8&t #onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory #usa #civilrights #blm #thurgoodmarshall