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There has not been an African American Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. The first African American Associate Justice was the Honorable Thurgood Marshall.
No. Justice Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American on the US Supreme Court. Justice Clarence Thomas is the second African-American US Supreme Court justice. President George HW Bush nominated him in 1991 to replace Thurgood Marshall, who was retiring. Justice Thomas is an incumbent on the bench.
Thurgood Marshall was a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the first African- American ever to be appointed as a justice.
Frederick Dougalas
he was the first African American to be served as a justice of the supreme court.
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
for being the first African American justice of the supreme court
for being the first African American justice of the supreme court
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
At the moment, Clarence Thomas, who was nominated by George H. W. Bush in 1991, is the only African-American on the Court. He replaced Thurgood Marshall (1967-1991), the first African-American to serve as Supreme Court Justice, upon Marshall's retirement. There have only been two African-Americans on the US Supreme Court to date.