Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
Biography:
"As an attorney fighting to secure equality and justice through the courts, Thurgood Marshall helped build the legal foundation for Martin Luther King's challenges to segregation...After working in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) national office as an assistant to chief counsel Charles Houston, his former law school professor, Marshall succeeded him as NAACP chief counsel in 1938. In 1940 he began directing the newly created NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). Marshall argued several landmark court cases that banned segregation practices...Marshall's most historic victory came in 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education, in which Marshall argued successfully against the doctrine of 'separate but equal,' convincing the court that segregated schools were inherently unequal, and beginning the process of school desegregation...In 1961 President John F. Kennedy appointed Marshall to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, making him the second African American to serve as a federal appellate judge. From 1965 to 1967, Marshall served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as solicitor general, the government's chief appellant lawyer before the Supreme Court, another first for an African American. In 1967 Marshall was confirmed to the Supreme Court, where he remained the first and only African American justice until he retired in 1991."--"Marshall, Thurgood (1908-1993)" King Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 11, 2008: http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Alabama Media Group Collection (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Anne Braden Oral History Project (Kentucky Virtual Library)
- Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library. (Digital Library of Georgia)
- Barbara C. Jordan Archives (Portal to Texas History)
- Black History Month 2004 : A Civil Rights Resource (C-SPAN)
- Civil Rights History Project (Library of Congress)
- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project (Carnegie Museum of Art)
- FBI Freedom of Information Act Collection (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
- Florida Civil Rights Oral Histories (University of South Florida Libraries)
- Freedom summer digital collection (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) (forms (documents))
- CORE--Educational materials - Workbooks, outlines, handbooks, 1963-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 2, Segment 22) (reports)
- Council of Federated Organizations Panola County Office --Miscellany (Council of Federated Organizations Panola County Office records, 1963-1965; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 521, Box 1, Folder 13) (reports)
- Dunlap--Mississippi Freedom Project, 1964-1965 (Papers, 1964-1972, 1994; Z: Accessions, M2000-007, Box 2, Folder 5) (flyers)
- Kaplow--Friends of SNCC - General, 1964-1967, undated (Alicia Kaplow papers, 1964-1968; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 507, Box 1, Folder 7) (reports)
- Lynd--Printed material, February 1963-October 1965 & undated (Staughton and Alice Lynd papers 1938-2008; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 395, Box 5, Folder 1) (press releases)
- Lynd--Printed material, February 1963-October 1965 & undated (Staughton and Alice Lynd papers 1938-2008; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 395, Box 5, Folder 2) (press releases)
- Lynd--Printed material, February 1963-October 1965 & undated (Staughton and Alice Lynd papers 1938-2008; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 395, Box 5, Folder 3) (press releases)
- Montgomery--Lucile Montgomery general correspondence, 1964-1966 (Lucile Montgomery papers, 1963-1967; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 44, Reel 2, Segment 31b) (correspondence)
- Park--Robert W. Park papers, 1964-1966; Archives Main Stacks SC658 (correspondence)
- Robinson--Freedom School materials (Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson papers, 1960-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 191, Box 1, Folder 6) (periodicals)
- Georgia Political Papers and Oral History Program (University of West Georgia Special Collections)
- March on Milwaukee: Civil Rights History Project (Golda Meir Library (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries))
- Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine Papers ca. 1918-2000 (University of South Carolina)
- Letter, 1949 Mar. 8, (Columbia, S.C.), Harold R. Boulware, to Joseph A. DeLaine, Sr., (Summerton, S.C.) (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter, 1961 Dec. 11, (New York, N.Y.), Roy Wilkins, to Joseph A. DeLaine, Sr., (Hollis, Long Island, N.Y.) (Letters (correspondence))
- Petition, 1949 Nov. 11, (Clarendon County, S.C.) Harry Briggs, et al., to the Board of Trustees for School District No. 22 (Clarendon County, S.C.) (Legal documents)
- Petition, 1949 Nov. 11, Harry Briggs, et al., to the Board of Trustees for School District No. 22, Clarendon County Board of Education (S.C.) (Legal documents)
- Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress)
- Southern school news (University of Georgia Libraries)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news (Periodicals)
- Southern school news, 1955 July 6 (Periodicals)
- Southern school news, 1955 September 1 (Periodicals)
- Wisconsin Historical Images (Wisconsin Historical Society)
- With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty (Library of Congress)
- Anson Phelps Stokes to Channing Tobias, Chairman of the NAACP, offering congratulations on the NAACP's victory in Brown v. Board of Education. (Telegrams)
- George E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M. Nabrit congratulating each other (Black-and-white photographs)
- Time magazine, September 19, 1955. Cover (Covers (gathered matter components))
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)