Washington, DC Associate Supreme Court Justice Swear In: Thurgood Marshall in his robe prior to being sworn in as the first Black member of the U. S....
Thurgood Marshall, the great-grandson of a slave, takes his seat as the first black member of the United States Supreme Court.
Washington, D.C.: Thurgood Marshall, NAACP Chief Council, is shown in front of the Supreme Court, making a last-ditch appeal that would permit Black...
Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall in front of the Supreme Court where he made a last-ditch appeal that would permit African American children to...
Ocala, FL: Seated in the crowded courtroom during the second trial of Walter Lee Irvin are, Left to Right: Paul C. Perkins; Jack Greenberg, New York...
Portrait of American jurist Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall as he stands, his hands on the back of a chair,...
Lawyer Thurgood Marshall and civil rights activist Daisy Bates join several members of the "Little Rock Nine", the first students to integrate...
American civil rights activist, Autherine Lucy at a press conference at the national office of the National Association for the Advancement of...
Portrait of American jurist Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall , Washington DC, 1967.
Washington, D. C.: Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States is pictured February 5th.
Washington, DC: Attorneys who argued the case against segregation stand together smiling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building after the High...
Attorneys who argued the case against segregation stand together smiling in front of the U. S. Supreme Court Building, after the High Tribunal ruled...
Atlanta, GA: Photo of Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for NAACP, at NAACP regional meeting in Atlanta.
Washington, D.C.: President Johnson congratulates Federal Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall, a former Negro leader in the civil rights cause, after...
Thurgood Marshall poses for a portrait. In 1954 Thurgood Marshall successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court the case of Brown vs....
Thurgood Marshall gets a last minute check from his wife, American civil rights activist and historian Cecilia Suyat, before his swearing in at the...
Thurgood Marshall stands with his family prior to being sworn in as the first black member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Left to right are his...
View of American Civil Rights lawyer and future Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall as he sits on a sofa, Washington DC, September 17,...
As special council for the NAACP, American attorney and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall speaks at a press conference regarding a...
Washington, D.C. - Thurgood Marshall, first Negro to become U.S. Solicitor General, sworn in by President Johnson. Marshall introduces President...
Negro attorneys Harold R. Boulware , Columbia, S.C., and Spotswood Robinson III , who are arguing against segregation before the Supreme Court,...
Members of the United States Supreme Court. The Court's newest member, Thurgood Marshall , is the first African American to sit on the high tribunal....
Washington, DC: Attorneys for the NAACP are shown. Left to right: William T Coleman Jr, New York; Thurgood Marshall, Chief Counsel; and Wiley A...
Washington, DC: Thurgood Marshall, chief councel of the NAACP told a press conference that the NAACP attorneys have agred to defend everyone of the...
Washington, DC: Thurgood Marshall ponders a question as he undergoes grilling for a fifth day today by Southern senators on the Senate Judiciary...
Thurgood Marshall , NAACP counsel and future Supreme Court judge, speaking at the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Defender, in Chicago, IL, 1955.
Washington, D.C.: Attorneys for six Southern states fight against the Voting Rights Act of 1965 at their last barricade -- the U.S. Supreme Court....
Washington: President Johnson today named Thurgood Marshall to be the first black Justice of the Supreme Court. Johnson personally announced the...
Formal portrait of the members of the United States Supreme Court, Washington DC, September 11, 1990. Pictured are, front row, from left, Associate...
Lawyer Thurgood Marshall sworn in as Solicitor General of the Peace Corps as his family looks on on August 24, 1965.
Holding a poster against racial bias in Mississippi are four of the most active leaders in the NAACP movement, from left: Henry L. Moon, director of...
John Davis and Thurgood Marshall argued for and against school segregation before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. Marshall's...
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States pose for an official portrait. Left to right, front row: Justices Potter Stewart, William O....
Thurgood Marshall, well-known negro attorney appears before Senate Judiciary Subcommittee today for a second examination of his nomination to be a...
American newspaper publisher John H. Sengstacke presents attorney Thurgood Marshall the Annual Robert S. Abbott Memorial Award plaque, May 8, 1954.
View of American attorney Thurgood Marshall as he speaks at Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, mid 1950s. The speech was delivered...
Portrait of American lawyer Thurgood Marshall as he sits at a desk in his Harlem office, New York, New York, February 1, 1960.
New York, NY- ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall avers that organizations like Black Muslims "harm" the civil...
President Johnson called top Negro and Government leaders to the White House for urgent talks on racial tensions erupting from the slaying of Dr....
The US Supreme Court opened its 1965-1966 term today with a greeting for Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to hold that...
From left, Theodore Jones , president of the Chicago NAACP, Thurgood Marshall , NAACP counsel and future Supreme Court judge, Myrtle Sengstacke ,...
Kenyan Premier Jomo Kenyatta shares a laugh with US Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall upon the latter's arrival, Nairobi, Kenya, July 11, 1963.
Washington, D.C.- US Supreme Court , front L-R: Thurgood Marshall; William Brennan; Chief Justice William Rehnquist; Byron White; Harry Blackmun;...
Washington, D.C.: Tension shows on the faces of Vice President Humphrey and Walter E. Fauntroy , member of the Washington city council, as they wait...
American lawyer, and later US Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall , attorney for the NAACP, September 17, 1957.
Portrait of African American lawyer and civil rights activist Thurgood Marshall , chief of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, who would...
