On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. He was the first African American to be so appointed. During the 1940s and 50s, Marshall planned and executed the legal strategy that ended the era of official racial segregation. Among the winning cases he argued was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954. This eventually led to the abolishment of segregation in all public facilities and accommodations.
