Primary Sources: People - African-Americans: Marshall, Thurgood

Recorded: Wednesday, July 7, 1965 - 1:30pm - 1:37pm
"In this call, President Johnson asks Judge Thurgood Marshall to be Solicitor General to replace Archibald Cox, who was planning to resign his post and return to his position at Harvard University's Law School."

At the Annual Seminar of the San Francisco Patent and Trademark Law Association
In Maui, Hawaii, May 6, 1987

NYT article on Marshall's confirmation to the Supreme Court August 31, 1967
Proquest Historical NYT

"Before his nomination to the Court, Thurgood Marshall was the executive director and counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense and Educational Fund. In this role, he pursued legal cases that could be used to challenge the constitutionality of segregation. In this 1941 memo to the NAACP legal staff, Marshall discusses a voting rights case in Texas."

"Before his eventual appointment as the first African American justice on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall worked as lead counsel for the NAACP, successfully arguing the case Brown of Board v. Education (1954) before the Court. Here, Marshall writes a letter to Herbert Levy of the ACLU, thanking him for his support on the Brown case."