Who was first African American to be appointed to the US Supreme Court?

Answer 1

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 2

President Lyndon Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to be the first African-American US Supreme Court justice in 1967. Marshall retired from the Court in 1991 and died in 1993.

President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female US Supreme Court justice in 1986. O'Connor retired from the Court in 2006.

Answer 3

As of 2010, there have only been two African-American justices on the US Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Justice appointed to the US Supreme Court, was Chief Counsel for the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a social activism group) in 1954, and argued Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka before the high court twice -- once in 1952 and once in 1953.

President Lyndon Johnson nominated Marshall as an Associate Justice to the Supreme Court in 1967, and he was confirmed by a Senate vote of 69-11 on August 31. Marshall served from 1967-1991, and died on January 24, 1993, at the age of 84.

Clarence Thomas, the second African-American Justice to serve on the Court, was nominated by George H. W. Bush in 1991 to succeed Thurgood Marshall, who retired the same year.

Before joining the Supreme Court, Thomas was chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under Reagan, and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit under the elder Bush.

Answer 4

The first African American appointed to the US Supreme Court was Thurgood Marshall. He was nominated in 1967 by then President Lyndon Johnson.

Marshall was already well know in legal circles for his high rate of success in arguing cases before the Supreme Court, but he came to national prominence for his successful arguments as chief counsel for the NAACP before the Supreme Court in the famous case of Brown v. the Board of Education, (1954), which invalidated the "separate but equal" doctrine and outlawed segregation in the public schools. This overturned the earlier precedent established by Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) ruling racial segregation was constitutional as long as equal accommodations were provided.

Although Brown v. Board of Education declared segregation unconstitutional, it still took a long time for this ruling to be implemented in practical terms.

Answer 5

• Clarence Thomas became the second African-American justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court when President George HW Bush appointed him to succeed Justice Thurgood Marshall, who retired in 1991. Marshall, who served from 1967-1991 was the first African-American US Supreme Court justice. Justice Marshall was a progressive; Justice Thomas is a conservative. opps I forgot thye

  There have only been two African-Americans on the US Supreme Court to date.

Answer 6

Thurgood Marshall.