Carter, Robert L., 1917-2012
- Authoritative Name:
- Carter, Robert L., 1917-2012
- 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.
- Associated Subjects:
- Carter, Robert L., 1917-2012
- Archival Collections And Reference Resources:
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14 items in 4 collections (expand all)
Attorney Robert L. Carter presenting a newspaper as evidence during the NAACP hearing before Judge Walter B. Jones.
- Date of Original:
- 1958-06-20
- Collection:
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
Attorneys Arthur Shores, Robert L. Carter, Fred Gray, and Orzell Billingsley conferring during the NAACP hearing before Judge Walter B. Jones.
- Date of Original:
- 1958-06-20
- Collection:
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
Attorneys Arthur Shores, Robert L. Carter, and Fred Gray conferring during the NAACP hearing before Judge Walter B. Jones in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Date of Original:
- 1958-06-20
- Collection:
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
Attorneys Arthur Shores, Robert L. Carter, and Orzell Billingsley listening to Judge Walter B. Jones speak during the NAACP hearing.
- Date of Original:
- 1958-06-20
- Collection:
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
Attorneys Fred Gray and Robert L. Carter speaking during the NAACP hearing before Judge Walter B. Jones.
- Date of Original:
- 1958-06-20
- Collection:
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
Robert L. Carter, chief council for the NAACP, testifying on the stand before Judge Walter B. Jones.
- Date of Original:
- 1958-06-20
- Collection:
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
Beech--Ministers' Project volunteers' reports, February-August 19, 1964 (Robert Beech Papers, 1963-1972; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 945, Box 6, Folder 6)
- Creator:
- Beech, Robert, 1935-2008
- Date of Original:
- 1964-02
1964-03
1964-04
1964-05
1964-06
1964-07
1964-08 - Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
Braden--Mississippi 1964 (continued) (Carl and Anne Braden papers, 1928-2006; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 6, Box 56, Folder 1)
- Creator:
- Braden, Carl, 1914-1975.
- Date of Original:
- 1964
- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
CORE--Arrests and bail forms, 1963-1964 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 1, Segment 3)
- Creator:
- Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional District
- Date of Original:
- 1963/1964
- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
Goodman--National clippings and loose clippings (Carolyn Goodman papers, 1964-2000; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 833, Reel 1b)
- Creator:
- Goodman, Carolyn
- Date of Original:
- 1964/1967
- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
Goodman--New York newspaper clippings (Carolyn Goodman papers, 1964-2000; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 833, Reel 1a)
- Creator:
- Goodman, Carolyn
- Date of Original:
- 1964/1967
- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
Poor People's Corporation--Correspondence, 1964, Mar. 10-1965, Dec. (Poor People's Corporation records, 1960-1967; Archives Main Stacks, MSS 172 Box 1, Folder 3)
- Creator:
- Poor People's Corporation
- Date of Original:
- 1964/1965
- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
Monthly Report of Field Secretary, June 10 - August 17, 1963, South Carolina Conference of Branches, NAACP
- Creator:
- Newman, I. DeQuincey (Isaiah DeQuincey), 1911-1985
- Date of Original:
- 1963-08-17
- Collection:
- Isaiah DeQuincey Newman, (1911-1985), Papers, 1929-2003
- Contributing Institution:
- University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections
Southern school news
- Creator:
- Southern Education Reporting Service
- Date of Original:
- 1955-04-07
- Collection:
- Southern school news
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Georgia. Libraries