Campus History: Thurgood Marshall’s 1956 speech on Human Rights

On March 8, 1956, Marshall visited the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to talk about his work, cases of segregation in Illinois, and the murder of Emmett Till.

Before Marshall became the first African American justice on the US Supreme Court, he was a prominent civil rights lawyer. He argued more than 30 cases before the nation's highest Court, including Brown vs. Board of Education.

Audio digitized by Jack Brighton.