Marshall Confirmed as First Black Justice - August 30, 1967
Download MP3On August 30, 1967, the U.S. Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first Black Justice on the Supreme Court, 69 to 11, after segregationist senators grilled him for five days of hearings. One of them, Strom Thurmond, pressed Marshall on interracial marriage while hiding a family secret that would not surface for another thirty-six years. This episode traces Marshall's road from a near-lynching in Tennessee to the nation's highest bench, and asks whether breaking a barrier is the same as dismantling what built it.
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