Marshall Speaks in New York: Thurgood Marshall, Chief Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, speaks before the reunion of the 396th Veterans' Association in New York City. Marshall returned from Tyler, Texas, where the state Attorney General obtained a temporary restraining order banning all NAACP activities in the state. Marshall said, "there is no doubt, we will win this case." He added that "desegregation is coming on in the South faster than could have been imagined."

Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was an American lawyer and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th Justice and its first black Justice. Marshall established a private legal practice in Baltimore before founding the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he served as Executive Director. In that position, he argued several cases before the Supreme Court, including Smith v. Allwright, Shelley v. Kraemer, and Brown v. Board of Education, which held that racial segregation in public education is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Four years later, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall as the United States Solicitor General. In 1967, Johnson successfully nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court to succeed retiring Associate Justice Tom C. Clark.

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On verso: manuscript title and typewritten label with title and date affixed.

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This object has the following keywords:

• Broken barriers
• Civil Rights Movements
• Desegregation
• Injustice
• Lawsuits
• Lawyers
• Male Portraits
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• New York City
• Racial Discrimination
• Restraining orders
• Thurgood Marshall
• Thurgood Marshall
• Tyler
• Veterans
• Veterans Organizations

• Image Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 6 1/2 in. (21.27 x 16.51 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 9 x 7 1/8 in. (22.86 x 18.1 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin