Thurgood Marshall argued on behalf of the plaintiffs (black students seeking access to all-white schools) when the cases grouped under <em>Brown v. Board of Education </em>were brought before the Supreme Court in 1952-1953. At the time, Thurgood Marshall was the head of the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). There were four cases that were combined into the overall court case known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which was argued before the Supreme Court in 1952 and 1953, and decided in 1954. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to serve on the Supreme Court. He was the first African American to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.
Both the House and the Senate are made up out of the members from both the Democratic and the Republican Party. According to these statistics we can see that the minority in the House and the majority in the Senate are from the same political party as the President.