January 24, 1993 | Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall the first African American Supreme Court Justice in the United States died at age 84 in Bethesda, Maryland on January 24, 1993. Marshall was born on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall
In this telephone conversation on July 7, 1965, almost two years prior to Thurgood Marshall’s nomination for Supreme Court Justice, President Johnson ask him to become Solicitor General.