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On this day in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to the United States Supreme Court. Marshall thus became the first Black to serve as Associate Justice of the Court. He had served as a private lawyer; but became more famous for forming the NAACP Legal Defense Fund that won most of the major cases that upended segregation in the U.S. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Marshall to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; in 1965 President Johnson appointed him Solicitor-General of the United States.