State of Texas vs. NAACP case records, 1911-1961 1945-1961.

Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993

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Thurgood Marshall (b. July 2, 1908, Baltimore, Maryland – d. January 24, 1993, Washington, D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, a 1954 decision that ruled t...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1975)

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From 1934 to 1937 The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities began as the Special Committee on Un-American Activities and was also known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee. The Dies Committee, was created on May 26, 1938, with the approval of House Resolution 282, which authorized the Speaker of the House to appoint a special committee of seven members to investigate un-American activities in the United States, domestic diffusion of propaganda, and all other questions relating thereto...

Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981

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Civil rights leader and journalist; d. 1981. From the description of Papers, 1915-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31605113 Roy Wilkins was born in St. Louis, Missouri, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota. Wilkins edited the KANSAS CITY CALL, a Black newspaper, from 1923 to 1931. Wilkins became Assistant Secretary of the NAACP in 1931 and became Executive Secretary in 1955. Under his leadership the NAACP grew to 350,000 members. ...

Texas State Conference of the NAACP Branches

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Durham, W. J., ca. 1910-1970.

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Sweatt, Heman Marion, 1912-1982

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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

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Tate, U. Simpson.

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Texas. Attorney-General's Office

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Instigated in 1956 when the Texas Attorney General sought to investigate the files of the NAACP branches in Houston and Dallas, the lawsuit in the 7th District Court of Texas in Smith County resulted in a permanent injunction, which prohibited the NAACP from involvement in political and litigious activities, restricting the organization to charitable and educational functions. From the description of State of Texas vs. NAACP case records, 1911-1961 1945-1961. (University of Texas Lib...

Dunagan, Otis T., b. ca. 1908.

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Texas. District Court (Smith County)

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Bunkley, Crawford B.

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Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi

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Shepperd, John Ben, b. 1916.

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Smith, A. Maceo, ca. 1903-1977.

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