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LAWS AND AMENDMENTS
Executive Order 9066: Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas (February 19, 1942)
SPEECHES AND PUBLIC STATEMENTS
Southern Manifesto on Integration (March 12, 1956)
CORRESPONDENCE
Thurgood Marshall to Herbert Levy of the ACLU, June 9, 1954
Felix Frankfurter to Earl Warren, May 17, 1954
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt nominates Hugo Black to the Supreme Court, August 12, 1937
ARTICLES & MEMORANDA
Thurgood Marshall Memorandum, "Saving the Race," February 17, 1941
William Rehnquist, "A Random Thought on the Segregation Cases," 1952
Felix Frankfurter, draft version of decree in Brown v. Board of Education II, 1955
POLITICAL CARTOONS
Cartoon from the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, commenting on Hugo Black's appointment to the Court, 1937
"Welcome aboard, Harry!" from the WASHINGTON STAR, October 17, 1970
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