His father held several jobs as a waiter and his mother was a teacher. William, his father, liked to follow legal cases and Thurgood often went with him to court. He rose to become the first Black justice on the Supreme Court, nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965.CIVIL RIGHTS RECORDBefore he became a justice, Marshall was a Lincoln University and Howar...
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