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First Black Supreme Court Judge Thurgood Marshall became the first Black member of the Supreme Court (after the Senate confirmed Johnson's nomination of Marshall to the court). Marshall had been the NAACP lawyer who argued Brown v. Board of Education in front of the Supreme Court in 1954.