Web Links
Thurgood Marshall Papers.
Thurgood Marshall Opinions on Supreme Court. Listed here are all of the opinions written by Thurgood Marshall while he sat on the Supreme Court.
http://www.oyez.org/justices/thurgood_marshall&sub=opinions
Thurgood Marshall: Before the Court. This timeline from American RadioWorks notes many of the important events of Thurgood Marshall’s life and work.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/marshall/
Telegram of congratulations from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Marshall, June 13, 1967.
Included here are a series of interviews between Thurgood Marshall and biographer Juan Williams on such topics as Marshall’s early life; his work with the NAACP; his relations with J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI; his relations with Malcolm X and the Black Muslims; Marshall’s views on various presidents; Marshall’s views of some of his fellow justices; and other miscellaneous topics.
http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/interviews/interviews.htm
Transcript of Thurgood Marshall oral history interview, Lyndon B. Johnson Papers, July 10, 1969.
http://www.lbjlibrary.net/assets/documents/archives/oral_histories/marshall_t/marshall.pdf
New York Times excerpt of 1977 Thurgood Marshall interview (“Reminiscences of Thurgood Marshall”) by the Columbia University's Oral History Research Office.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/08/opinion/oh-yipe-said-thurgood-marshall.html
Transcript of interview with NAACP-affiliated lawyer, Oliver W. Hill, Sr., including discussion of Hill’s work on Brown v. Board of Education.
http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/5
Thurgood Marshall’s speech on the topic of equality given on the occasion of Wiley Branton becoming Dean of the Howard University Law School, November 18, 1979.
http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/speeches/equality_speech.htm
Full text of Thurgood Marshall’s speech at the U.S. Constitution bicentennial celebration, as given in Maui, Hawaii on May 6, 1987.
http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/speeches/constitutional_speech.htm
Thurgood Marshall’s Liberty Medal acceptance speech, titled “We Must Dissent,” delivered on July 4, 1992.
http://constitutioncenter.org/libertymedal/recipient_1992_speech.html
Text of a speech, titled “The Sword and the Robe,” given to the Second Circuit Judicial Conference, May 8, 1981 on Thurgood Marshall’s conceptions of the role of judiciary as neutral interpreters of the law.
http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/speeches/sword_article.htm
Excerpts from Thurgood Marshall retirement press conference from the L.A. Times.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-06-29/news/mn-1178_1_news-conference
New York Times obituary of Thurgood Marshall, January 25, 1993.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0702.html
Transcripts of White House Tapes, Lyndon B. Johnson Administration, regarding Thurgood Marshall. Included on these tapes are phone conversations between LBJ and Marshall over Marshall’s becoming Solicitor General and Supreme Court Justice, between LBJ and various administration officials about Marshall’s becoming Solicitor General and Supreme Court justice, and between LBJ and Cissy Marshall in which Cissy thanks LBJ for naming her husband to the Supreme Court.
http://millercenter.org/presidentialclassroom/exhibits/thurgood-marshall-lbj-johnson-tapes
President Lyndon B. Johnson Press conference announcing Thurgood Marshall’s appointment to the Supreme Court, June 13, 1967 during which LBJ notes, “I believe he earned that appointment; he deserves the appointment. He is best qualified by training and by very valuable service to the country. I believe it is the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place.”
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=28298
Web page from the Library of Congress on Brown v. Board of Education’s fiftieth anniversary.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-brown.html
Documents related to Brown v. Board of Education from the National Archives.
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/brown-v-board/
Selected Newspaper Articles and Cartoons about Thurgood Marshall from the New York Times.
http://www.thurgoodmarshallnhd.com/TimesIndex.html
Op-ed column by James J. Kilpatrick, “When Marshall Disrobed His Colleagues,” Baltimore Sun, July 3, 1991.
Op-ed column by Clarence Page on the death of Thurgood Marshall, January 28, 1993.
Juan Williams op-ed on “The American Conservatism of Thurgood Marshall,” Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704293604575342872399310184.html
Kenneth J. Cooper, “Marshall’s Letters Reveal a Strategist,” Boston.com.
New York Times article on the burial of Thurgood Marshall, January 29, 1993.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/29/us/thousands-fill-cathedral-to-pay-tribute-to-marshall.html?src=pm
Sample from Thurgood Marshall’s FBI file.
http://vault.fbi.gov/Thurgood%20Marshall
Digital photo from the National Archives of the “Assignment of Errors and Prayer for Relief,” in Briggs v. Elliott, May 9, 1952.
http://research.archives.gov/description/279305
Correspondence between Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston in regards to Murray vs. Pearson and the desegregation of the University of Maryland Law School.
http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2200/sc2221/000016/pdf/0000007a.pdf
Column by H. L. Mencken on the Murray Case.
http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2200/sc2221/000016/pdf/0000007b.pdf
Russell Berman, “RNC uses Thurgood Marshall speech to attack Supreme Court nominee Kagan,” The Hill, 5-10-10.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/96909-gop-uses-thurgood-marshall-to-attack-kagan