[Answer] 1. In 1967 who was the first African-American appointed to the Supreme Court?

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...1. Thurgood Marshall 2. Sonia M. Sotomayor 3. Hugo L. Black 4. Earl Warren Thurgood Marshall, born in July, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland, was the great-grandson of a slave who had been born in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His grandfather was also a slave, born in the US. His mother was a teacher who taught him a great appreciation for the Constitution of the US as well as for the rule of law. (As an aside, his birth name was "Thoroughgood" but he shortened it. His parents obviously knew he would become a great, good man.) Marshall graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1933, where he was first in his class. Three years later he represented a client who brought suit against the University of Maryland Law School's segregation policy and won. It was an interesting case and victory for him because he had originally wanted to attend the University of Maryland but couldn't because of the segregation policy. In August 1961, he became Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, having been nominated by President John F. Kennedy. In August 1965 he became the 32nd US Solictor General, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson. Then, in August 1967, nominated by President Johnson, he became an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the first African-American to hold that position, one that he held for the next 24 years. While in that position, one of his law clerks was Elena Kagan, who in the meantime has become a Supreme Court Justice.

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Thurgood Marshall:

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