NAACP Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall with US Capitol behind him, appealed to the Supreme Court on behalf of the Little Rock Nine, August 1958.

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This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - Thurgood Marshall, From Howard U to Highest Court

NAACP Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall with US Capitol behind him, appealed to the Supreme Court on behalf of the Little Rock Nine, August 1958.

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - Thurgood Marshall, From Howard U to Highest Court

Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - Thurgood Marshall, From Howard U to Highest Court

In the same year that President Lyndon B. Johnson asked him to serve as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, US Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall used these words in defense of the federal government's opposition to a California state…