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Marshall speaks in New York – Historic Print

Marshall speaks in New York — historic photograph
Marshall speaks in New York. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Thurgood Marshall is pictured speaking in New York in 1956, a year when he was chief counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and deeply involved in enforcing the 1954 *Brown v. Board of Education* decision. Southern states were resisting school desegregation at the time, and Marshall spent much of his career arguing civil rights cases in courtrooms and before public audiences. He later became the first Black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1967. The record gives few details about this particular appearance, so the picture is best read as a snapshot of a lawyer at work on the public stage.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1956
SubjectsMarshall, Thurgood,--1908-1993--Public appearances--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,343 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-185867

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