Papers of Homer S. Brown, 1918-1977.

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Papers of Homer S. Brown, 1918-1977.

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The papers of Homer S. Brown contain materials documenting his legal and political career. Types of materials include correspondence, photographs, articles written by Brown, biographies and interview transcriptions, newspaper clippings about Brown's achievements,; newspaper clippings about his wife, Wilhelmina Byrd Brown, and her achievements; and twenty-three bound volumes of photocopies of his papers held by Virginia Union University.

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University of Pittsburgh

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University of Pittsburgh

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Brown, Homer S., 1896-1977.

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Homer Sylvester Brown, born in Huntington, W. Va. on September 23, 1896, was educated at Virginia Union University in Richmond, VA, and received his law degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1923. Brown became a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association on October 26, 1923, and in 1934 he was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. During Brown's tenure in the House (1935-1950) he authored the State Fair Employment Practices Act. In 1943 Brown was the first African-Ameri...

White House Conference on Education (1955 : Washington, D.C.)

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Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Allegheny County)

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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...

Brown, Wilhelmina Byrd.

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Pittsburgh Branch.

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Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives

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Virginia Union University (Richmond, Va.)

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National Theological Institute with branches in Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Va., founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, split apart after 1865 with the Washington branch becoming Wayland Seminary; 1869 the Richmond branch was named Colver Institute; in 1876 school was incorporated by the Virginia General Assembly under the name Richmond Institute; in 1883 a college for women named Hartshorn Memorial College was founded by the ABHMS; with no women attending the Richmond Institu...