Answer:
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American Supreme Court justiec in 1967.
Explanation:
Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American judge in the United States Supreme Court. He sat in this office from 1967 to 1991, when he retired due to illness.
He was educated at Howard University in Washington, D.C. (graduated in 1933), had private practice in Baltimore, and became a lawyer for the NAACP civil rights movement the following year. In doing so, he worked in, among other cases, the Brown v Board of Education case, where blacks were given the statutory right to integrated education with whites in American schools.
He won a number of court cases before the courts, became a judge in an appeals court in 1961, and became the United States Solicitor General in 1965. Two years later he became a Supreme Court judge. Among other things, he was part of the majority of 5 who adopted the majority vote in Roe v. Wade and thus legalized abortion in the United States.
