- Collection:
- With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
- Title:
- Anson Phelps Stokes to Channing Tobias, Chairman of the NAACP, offering congratulations on the NAACP's victory in Brown v. Board of Education.
- Creator:
- Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-1958
- Date of Original:
- 1954-05-18
- Subject:
- Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--United States
Segregation in education--United States
Discrimination in education--United States
Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century
Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Civil rights--United States
African American lawyers--United States - People:
- Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-1958
Tobias, Channing Heggie, 1882-1961
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 - Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- telegrams
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This telegram, dated May 18, 1954, was sent from Anson Phelps Stokes to Channing Tobias, Chairman of the NAACP, celebrating the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Stokes offers special congratulations to Thurgood Marshall, who served as an attorney on the case.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/id:loc_evenhand_br0096s
- Digital Object URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/br0096s.jpg
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection, Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
Anson Phelps Stokes to Channing Tobias, Chairman of the NAACP, offering congratulations on the NAACP's victory in Brown v. Board of Education.
