Viola Coleman collection, 1945-2008 (bulk 1945-1947).

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...

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Board of Supervisors.

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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...

Coleman, Viola Mary Johnson, 1919-2005.

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Viola Mary Johnson was born September 15, 1919 in New Iberia, La. She graduated from Southern University in Baton Rogue, La., then attended Meharry Medical School in Nashville, Tenn. She married Raymond Coleman in 1950 and they moved to Midland, Tex., in 1951, where she began working as a physician. Viola Coleman was the first African-American female doctor in Midland. She maintained a private practice and served on the staff at Midland Memorial Hospital until 2001. During her career Coleman was...