Carter, Robert L., 1917-
Biography:
"Legal assistant to Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Assistant special counsel at the LDF. Robert Carter was one of the lead attorneys on Sweatt v. Painter and Brown and worked on the many other matters of the fund in those years, including Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Oklahoma. In 1956 Carter succeeded Thurgood Marshall as the LDF's general counsel. Over the course of his tenure at the LDF, Carter argued or co-argued and won twenty-one of twenty-two cases in the Supreme Court."--Brown at 50, Howard University Law School.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Arthur Shores, Robert L. Carter, Fred Gray, and Orzell Billingsley, conferring during the NAACP hearing before Judge Walter B. Jones. (Negatives (photographs))
- Arthur Shores, Robert L. Carter, Orzell Billingsley, and others, listening to Judge Walter B. Jones speak during the NAACP hearing. (Negatives (photographs))
- Fred Gray speaking to Robert L. Carter during the NAACP hearing before Judge Walter B. Jones. (Negatives (photographs))
- Robert L. Carter, chief council for the NAACP, testifying on the stand before Judge Walter B. Jones. (Negatives (photographs))
- Robert L. Carter presenting a newspaper as evidence during the NAACP hearing before Judge Walter B. Jones. (Negatives (photographs))
- Eyes on the Prize Interviews (Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)
- Isaiah DeQuincey Newman, (1911-1985), Papers, 1929-2003 (University of South Carolina)
- Southern school news (University of Georgia Libraries)
- William A. Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project collection, 1984-1989 (University of Virginia. Library)