<I>Mrs. Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Maurice Sorrell, a Johnson Publishing company staff photographer pose at the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) 150th Anniversary reception at the National press club</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1977
name: label: Photograph by
content: Milton Williams, American, born 1940
label: Subject of
content: Maurice Sorrell, American, 1914 - 1998
label: Subject of
content: Thurgood Marshall, American, 1908 - 1993
label: Subject of
content: Cecilia Suyat Marshall, American, 1928 - 2022
notes: label: Caption
content: Mrs. Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and Maurice Sorell, A Johnson Publishing Company staff photographer, pose at the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) 150th anniversary reception at the National Press Club.
label: Caption
content: Sorrell photographed Justice Marshall and the civil rights movement from the fifties through the nineties for Jet and Ebony magazines. Sorrell also photographed Justice Marshall's funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington. March 1977.
label: Caption
content: Williams, Milton. Moments in Time 1973-1993 (Nashville, Tennessee: James C. Winston Publishing Company, Inc., 1996), 112.
label: Description
content: A black-and-white photograph of Maurice Sorrell, Thurgood Marshall and Cecilia Suyat Marshall. They are dressed formally and standing in front of several framed pictures. Maurice Sorrell is on the right, Thurgood Marshall is at center. Cecilia Suyat Marshall is at left. Maurice Sorrell is holding a glass and camera equipment. The photograph is stamped on the back.
place: label: Place captured
content: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Law
label: Topic
content: Local and regional
label: Topic
content: Photography
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Milton Williams Archives
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.15.240
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Milton Williams
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image and Sheet): 7 15/16 x 10 3/16 in. (20.2 x 25.9 cm)