Frederick Dougalas
There has not been an African American Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. The first African American Associate Justice was the Honorable Thurgood Marshall.
John Jay was the first American Supreme Court Justice.
No. Justice Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American on the US Supreme Court. Justice Clarence Thomas is the second African-American US Supreme Court justice. President George HW Bush nominated him in 1991 to replace Thurgood Marshall, who was retiring. Justice Thomas is an incumbent on the bench.
Thurgood Marshall was a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the first African- American ever to be appointed as a justice.
Thurgood Marshall was a an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was the 96th justice and it's first African American justice. He served from 1967 - 1991.
John F. Kennedy
for being the first African American justice of the supreme court
for being the first African American justice of the supreme court
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
John F. Kennedy