Thurgood Marshall and Spottswood Robinson read the Supreme Court's May 1954 decision declaring segregation unconstitutional.

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Thurgood Marshall and Spottswood Robinson read the Supreme Court's May 1954 decision declaring segregation unconstitutional.

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…