A key point in Andrew Johnson’s acquittal by the US Senate for violating the Tenure of Office Act was based on the word “term”. Many Senators felt the the term to which Stanton had been appointed ended with the death of Abraham Lincoln and thus Johnson could fire him under the law.
In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall, the first African American judge on the Supreme Court
Lyndon State College is a public liberal arts college located in the U.S. state of Vermont. Along with the master’s degree program, the college has 21 bachelor’s degree programs and 9 associate degree programs.
Vermont has a single law school, the inexplicably-named Vermont Law School. It was founded in 1972 in South Royalton, Vt. and is known for its focus on environmental law.
The University of Alabama School of Law preserves the law office of Chief Justice Hugo Black. As a young man interested in rising in politics, Black briefly joined the revenant (then acceptable in white southern society) KKK, which became the subject of a 1937 hearing and speech during his confirmation to SCotUS that was one of the most listened to radio addresses until that time. As an older man Black became increasingly more liberal, his liberal vote accepted as a foregone conclusion by the time of his retirement under Nixon and having favored almost all civil rights bills, making him a pariah in his home state. It was joked of Black that “as a young man he put on white robes and scared black folks and as an old man he put on black robes and scared white folks”.
Hugo Black was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and not Chief Justice of the United States.
He was the first of nine Franklin D. Roosevelt nominees to the Court, and he outlasted all except William O. Douglas. Black was, to date, the fifth longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history,
When seeking an Alabama senate seat, Black joined the Ku Klux Klan. Late in his life, he admitted that was a mistake, but said he would have joined any organization that would help him get votes.
For a period in the 60s, it was possible to say that some Supreme Court cases were Black and White issues. 
On January 16, 2008, researchers from Troy, New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced the creation of the then darkest material on the planet. The material, which reflected only 0.045 percent of light, was created from carbon nanotubes stood on end. This is 1/30 of the light reflected by the current standard for blackness, and one third the light reflected by the previous record holder for darkest substance. As of February 2016, the current darkest material known is claimed to be Vantablack.
From 1981-88, the Kansas City Royals had two players named Frank White and Bud Black. Black was white, and White was black.
The New York Mets had two pitchers named Bobby Jones on their roster in 2000; they also both played for the San Diego Padres in 2002. One, Robert Mitchell Jones, born 1972, is a black left-hander; the other, Robert Joseph Jones, born 1970, is a white right-hander.
Vantablack is called being blacker than black. The name VANTA comes from the term “Vertically Aligned Nano Tube Arrays”, from which it is made.
On December 22, 1216, Pope Honorius III ratified the establishment of the Dominican Order by his papal bull, the* Religiosam Vitam*. In England and other countries the Dominican friars are referred to as Black Friars because of the black cloak they wear over their white habits. Dominicans were Blackfriars, as opposed to Whitefriars (i.e., the Carmelites) or Greyfriars (i.e., Franciscans).
The Mel Brooks movie Robin Hood: Men in Tights parodies the Friar Tuck character as “Rabbi Tuckman,” a self-described “purveyor of sacramental wine and mohel extraordinaire.” Brooks, who also plays the character, made Tuckman Jewish (as Brooks himself is Jewish), reprising a gag from Blazing Saddles where Brooks made a cameo as a Jewish Native American.
Mel Brooks and Ann Bancroft were married for 41 years, until her death in 2005. They were both born in New York City. Brooks was born Melvin James Kaminsky in Williamsburg, Brooklyn while Bancroft was born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano in Belmont (Little Italy), the Bronx.
Don Imus’s radio show featured a parody of Garth Brooks’s “Friend in Low Places” with a Rush Limbaugh impersonator singing
I’ve got friends with white faces,
And a burning cross that you know chases Those Jews away, then we call it a day.
We’re mighty big on the master races,
we just slip on sheets and pillow cases.
Yes, I’ve got friends with white faces.
Garth Brooks is the only artist in music history to have released seven albums that achieved diamond (As of September 23, 2016) status in the United States, those being: Garth Brooks (10× platinum), No Fences (17× platinum), Ropin’ the Wind (14× platinum), The Hits (10× platinum), Sevens (10× platinum), Double Live (21× platinum), and “The Ultimate Hits” (10× platinum).
Actor Albert Brooks was born Albert Lawrence Einstein in Beverly Hills, California. By the age of 19, he had changed his professional name to Albert Brooks, joking that “the real Albert Einstein changed his name to sound more intelligent”.
Albert Brooks gravel-voiced brother created and played the part of “Super Dave” Osborne. Three trans-uranium elements were (not) named after Albert Brooks and the place of his birth – Lawrencium, Einsteinium and Californium.
Albert Einstein was born with an abnormally large head, which doctors were concerned could be a sign that he was mentally retarded.