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Happy birthday to JUSTICE Thurgood Marshall: He came CLOSE to his own lynching in Columbia, TN (near the birthplace of the KKK) after winning the acquittals of 23 black men (as of 1946). He became a federal judge in 1961 (by JFK) and the first African American Supreme Court Justice in 1967 (by LBJ).

u/CutBornandRaised — 2 days ago