In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. He was in office June 13, 1967 - June 28, 1991. He was preceded by Tom C. Clark; and succeeded by Clarence Thomas, a conservative African-American nominated by President George HW Bush.
Marshall, former lead counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court and won 29. One of his most famous cases was Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).
Unfortunately, as of 2010, there have been no female African-American Supreme Court Justices.
Until fairly recently, the Supreme Court consisted primarily of white men. Two African-American men have been among the 112 justices to sit on the Court since 1789:
We have also had four female Justices on the Court:
The first African American on the Supreme Court was Thurgood Marshall. He was the Associate Justice from October 1967 until October 1991.
January 3, 1993, Carol Moseley Braun became the first African American woman ever to serve as U.S. Senator.
Ronald Reagan nominated the first female member of the US Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor, in 1981. She was sworn in on September 25, 1981, and retired in 2006.
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Carol Mosley Braun, a democrat from Illinois, was the first black female senator. She was in office from 1993-1999.
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this republican was first black perosn elected to the U.S. senate.
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You are probably asking about a "senator"-- the senate is a branch of congress. The first woman senator was appointed for just one day in 1922-- Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia. But the first woman to be elected to the senate for an actual term was Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, in 1932.
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