Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, “Segregation”

Описание: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was a voice from The Cooper Union’s Great Hall on December 1, 1954. This clip from the then Director and Counsel of the National Association by the Advancement for Color People addresses “Segregation,” and was just one of his moving Cooper Union talks on institutional racism and voter suppression. At the time of this address, Justice Marshall had already successfully argued many cases before the US Supreme Court, including the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. This 1954 program was part of that spring’s ongoing “Moral and Politics” series and was one of four lectures that spoke to “Great Dangers” such as segregation and hate groups.

Listen to the entire lecture at Voices from the Great Hall (greathallvoices.cooper.edu), an extraordinary new public resource that tells the history of New York and the nation through the words of the people, like Justice Marshall, who helped to shape it from the stage of the Great Hall. Voices from the Great Hall is a digital archive, free and accessible to anyone, and generously supported by The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. The archival materials in Voices From the Great Hall are part of a collection in The Cooper Union Library Archives and Special Collections.