58 years ago today, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
When President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Justice Marshall, he said it was “the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man, and the right place.”
There have still only been three Black Justices out of the 116 people ever sworn into the Supreme Court. Justice Clarence Thomas succeeded Marshall when he retired in 1991, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in on June 30, 2022.









