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Events on Monday 2 October 1967 1
1967Thurgood Marshall joins US Supreme CourtFirst Black justice sworn inThurgood Marshall, the lawyer who had argued Brown v. Board of Education, was sworn in as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court. He served on the Court for 24 years, consistently voting on its liberal wing.