June 15, 1967
The Sentinel described the fifty-eight-year-old Marshall as a “towering legal genius” and noted that he was the grandson of a slave. “Essentially, Marshall’s appointment gives Negroes a 1 to 8 representation on the nine-member Supreme Court where in the total national population the ratio is 1 to 10. ‘That,’ remarked one observer, ‘is a pretty good percentage’” (click to view article PDF).