Thurgood Marshall papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 700
Subjects: Correspondence; Poor; Criminals; United States. Solicitor General; Civil rights; United States. Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit); United States. Supreme Court; Minorities; United States; Constitutional law; Capital punishment; Law
Description: Chiefly correspondence, case files, dockets, and other papers from Marshall's tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court (1967-1991); correspondence, administrative files, and other papers from his service (1961-1965) as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit); and correspondence and legal papers relating to his years as U.S. solicitor general (1965-1967).  The papers reflect Marshall's advocacy for the civil rights of minority and impoverished individuals and of criminal defendants and his opposition to capital punishment.  Correspondents include Benjamin O. Davis, John Doar, John Hope Franklin, Arthur J. Goldberg, Lyndon B. Johnson, J. Edward Lumbard, Adam Clayton Powell, Carl Thomas Rowan, and Roy Wilkins.
Notes: Open to research.

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Gift, Thurgood Marshall, 1991.

are located in the Library's collections of the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division where they are identified as part of the Thurgood Marshall Papers.

Lawyer, judge, solicitor general, and first African-American associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967.

Collection material in English.

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