In 1967, President Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court, declaring that it was “the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place.” Thurgood Marshall as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, the nation’s first African-American justice, became one of the most notable African American in the civil rights movement. Thurgood Marshall was instrumental in ending legal segregation. In his twenty-four year tenure, he voted to uphold gender and racial affirmative action policies in every case in which they were challenged. He opposed all efforts to narrow the right of women to obtain
