Thurgood Marshall is Sworn-In as Solicitor General

This photograph is of the swearing-in ceremony of federal judge Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Solicitor General. The ceremony 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 Marshall are President Lyndon B. Johnson, Attorney General Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, and Marshall's family: wife Cecilia Marshall and sons Thurgood Marshall, Jr. and John W. Marshall.