/tags/thurgood-marshall Thurgood Marshall en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Mon, 02 Oct 2017 23:51:58 GMT /politics/2017-10-02/first-african-american-u-s-supreme-court-justice-sworn-in-50-years-ago Fifty years ago today � Oct. 2, 1967 � Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. A former White� Mon, 02 Oct 2017 23:51:58 GMT /politics/2017-10-02/first-african-american-u-s-supreme-court-justice-sworn-in-50-years-ago Nathan Bernier