Thurgood Marshall
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Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-Amer
Official portrait, 1976
Marshall in the Colored High and Training School yearbook, 1925
Marshall c. 1935–1940
NAACP leaders Henry L. Moon, Roy Wilkins, Herbert Hill, and Thurgood Marshall in 1956
Tom C. Clark
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Thomas Campbell Clark was an American lawyer who served as the 59th United States attorney general from 1945 to 1949 and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1949 to 196
Thurgood Marshall
…constitutional protections. Four years later, Johnson appointed him as the U.S. Solicitor General. In 1967, Johnson nominated Marshall to replace Justice Tom C. Clark on the Supreme Court; despite opposition from Southern senators, he was confirmed by a 69–11 vote. He was often in the majority during the consistently…
Official portrait, 1956
Attorney General Tom C. Clark (second from right), with President Harry S. Truman cabinet in 1945
Tom C. Clark being sworn in as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, August 24, 1949
Clark with President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office at the White House.