1967年6月13日，时任总检察长的瑟古德·马歇尔（Thurgood Marshall）被约翰逊总统提名为美国最高法院大法官后留影。美联社图片/Henry Griffin）。
Then-Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is pictured after his nomination by President Johnson to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, June 13, 1967. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)
#美国政府中的非洲裔# 你知道美国最高法院的第一位非裔美国人法官是谁吗？
瑟古德·马歇尔（Thurgood Marshall ）于1908年6月2日出生在马里兰州巴尔的摩市。可以说，马歇尔的法律入门是在高中时开始的，当时作为对他一次恶作剧的惩罚，学校的校长让他读《美国宪法》。马歇尔立刻喜欢上了这份文件，并开始背诵其中的几个部分。他对第三条和《权利法案》特别感兴趣。马歇尔就读于都是黑人的林肯大学（美国最古老的非裔美国人高等教育机构），在因种族原因被马里兰大学法学院拒之门外后，又进入霍华德大学法学院学习，并以全班第一名的成绩毕业。1938年，马歇尔接管了美国全国有色人种协进会（NAACP）法律辩护和教育基金。马歇尔成功地让最高法院在“布朗诉教育委员会案”（1954年）中宣布公立学校的种族隔离是违宪的。最后，1967年，约翰逊总统任命他为美国最高法院法官。马歇尔于1993年去世。
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#African Americans in U.S. Government# Do you know who the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court was?
Thurgood Marshall was born Thoroughgood Marshall on June 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. Arguably, Marshall's introduction to law came in high school when, as a punishment for a prank he had pulled, the school's principal made him read the U.S. Constitution. Marshall immediately liked the document and set about memorizing various parts of it. He took special interest in Article III and the Bill of Rights. Marshall attended the all-black Lincoln University (the oldest African-American institution of higher education in the country) and, after being rejected from the University of Maryland School of Law because of his race, went on to attend law school at Howard University and graduated first in his class. In 1938, Marshall took over the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Marshall succeeded in having the Supreme Court declare segregated public schools unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Finally, in 1967, President Johnson appointed him to the U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall died in 1993.
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