who was the first african american to serve as a justice on the u.s supreme court?
<answer> Thurgood Marshall was the first african american to serve as a justice on the u.s supreme court. <context> No. Justice Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American appointed to the US Supreme Court. President Johnson nominated the former NAACP Legal Defense Fund chief counsel t … o the Court in 1967, where he served until his retirement in 1991.