Forty years ago today President Lyndon Johnson nominated then Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall for the Supreme Court.
Up to that point Marshall was best known for successfully arguing before the Supreme Court in the civil rights victory in Brown versus Board of Education.
His original name was Thoroughgood.
Born in Baltimore on July 2, 1908.
Died in Bethesda on January 24, 1993.
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