English subtitles for clip: File:1967-10-06 Thurgood Marshall Universal Newsreel.webm

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Thurgood Marshall, the first Negro to serve on the United States Supreme Court,

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puts on his robes with the assistance of his wife.

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President Johnson named Marshall to replace Justice Tom Clark who retired.

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Justice Marshall, the great-grandson of a slave, swore to do equal right

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to the poor and to the rich as the Supreme Court opened its 178th term.