President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Thurgood Marshall, then-Solicitor General, to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 13, 1967, saying, " it was the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place. Marshall ”became the first Black American to be nominated.
Marshall's pursuit for a legal career began with disappointment as the University of Maryland Law School, refused to open its doors to Black students. He wound up graduating first in his class at Howard University Law School. One of his first victories came against the University of Maryland, which had rejected a Black applicant on the basis of race alone. More
