It was 50 years ago when Thurgood Marshall was confirmed to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court

It was 50 years ago when Thurgood Marshall was confirmed to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court as its 96th justice, and as the court’s first African-American justice. As February’s Black History Month comes to a close, District of Columbia Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton said no Supreme Court justice was better prepared than Marshall. “Certainly none…