Advertisement for NAACP Mobilization Meeting at Fisk University Featuring a Speech by Thurgood Marshall
Title
Advertisement for NAACP Mobilization Meeting at Fisk University Featuring a Speech by Thurgood Marshall
Description
Broadside advertising an NAACP City-Wide Mobilization Meeting at Fisk University , featuring a speech by Thurgood Marshall , Chief Legal Council for the NAACP . Also speaking are members of the J . C . Napier Lawyers Association . The meeting will launch an NAACP membership campaign . Mrs . Flem Otey is listed as chairman .
Historical Note
The NAACP was founded in 1909 , on the centennial of Lincoln's birth , by a coalition of prominent whites and African Americans . The organization fought major battles against Jim Crow laws , lynching , and segregation . Thurgood Marshall became Chief Counsel for the NAACP in 1940 and held the position until he was appointed to the Second Circuit of the U.S . Appeals Court in 1961 . He was the first African American appointed to the U.S . Supreme Court in 1967 , and he remained on the court until 1991 .
Date
1960 April 6
Place
Nashville (Tenn.)
Collection Name
Library Broadside Collection
Collection Finding Aid
http://sos.tn.gov/products/tsla/library-broadside-collection-1814-2010
Education Tags
US.90 Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Modern United States
Subjects - LCSH
Broadsides ; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ; Marshall , Thurgood , 1908-1993 ; African American Lawyers ; Lawyers
Subjects - TGM
Broadsides
Owning Institution
Tennessee State Library and Archives
ID#
34417
Digital Type
TEXT
Digital Format
TIFF
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