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[Thurgood Marshall (r) and Spottswood W. Robinson III, half-length portrait, facing each other; in Washington, D.C. to ask the Supreme Court to end school segregation]

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  1. Civil Rights
  2. Civil Rights Leaders
  3. Lawyers
  4. Marshall, Thurgood
  5. Photographic Prints
  6. Robinson, Spottswood William

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