SHREVEPORT, La. - In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first Black nominated to serve on the Supreme Court.Â
He was confirmed after four days of grueling hearings.Â
Marshall served on the high court until he retired in 1991. He helped found the NAACP legal defense fund and was its chief counsel.
He won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before one of the Supreme Court's most famous cases, Brown v. The Board of Education that led to the desegregation of public schools.
