Thurgood Marshall Sworn-In as Solicitor General

This photograph is of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black congratulating Thurgood Marshall after swearing him in as the first African-American Solicitor General. The event took place in the Cabinet Room of the White House on August 24, 1965. Marshall would go on to become a Supreme Court Justice in 1967. Photographed alongside Black and Marshall are President Lyndon B. Johnson and Marshall's family: wife Cecilia Marshall and sons Thurgood Marshall, Jr. and John W. Marshall.