Thurgood Marshall takes the judicial oath; the Supreme Court has its first Black justice

Washington, D.C. was still absorbing a summer of Senate hearings when Thurgood Marshall stepped forward on October 2, 1967, to take the judicial oath as the first African American justice of the Supreme Court. President Lyndon Johnson had nominated him in June to fill the seat left by Justice Tom C. Clark's resignation, and the Senate had confirmed him in August by a vote of 69 to 11. Marshall, who had argued and won Brown v. Board of Education before the same court, now took his seat on it…