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Reminiscences of Thurgood Marshall, 1977.

Creator: Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
Project: Individual interviews oral history collection.
(see all project interviews)
Phys. Desc. :Transcript 193 pages Sound recording 4 reels
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Supreme Court Justice

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Baltimore; education, Lincoln University, 1930, Howard University Law School, 1933; 1936-61, assistant first counsel, Special Counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; impressions of civil rights cases, 1940s-70s, many judges, political figures, race riots; black press, leaders, civil rights organizations; Kenyan and Nigerian nationalism; 1961-65, United States circuit judge; 1965, appointment as Solicitor General by President Johnson; 1967, as Supreme Court Justice; landmark civil rights cases

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