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President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the first African-American justice, Thurgood Marshall, to the US Supreme Court in 1967. Justice Marshall was a prominent civil rights attorney before ascending to the bench, and was best known as lead counsel in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education,(1954).

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