James Nabritt: 1950 ca.
James Nabritt Jr., the attorney for the Consolidated Parents Group that filed the Bolling v. Sharpe case that resulted in desegregation of DC public schools, is shown in a photograph circa 1950.
He was a protégé of Thurgood Marshall and a student of Charles Hamilton Houston who later served as president of Howard University.
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/564wW3
Read the story of of DC desegregation from the pickets to the courts: washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/dcs-fighting-bar...
Photo by Addison N. Scurlock. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History: Archives Center.
James Nabritt: 1950 ca.
James Nabritt Jr., the attorney for the Consolidated Parents Group that filed the Bolling v. Sharpe case that resulted in desegregation of DC public schools, is shown in a photograph circa 1950.
He was a protégé of Thurgood Marshall and a student of Charles Hamilton Houston who later served as president of Howard University.
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/564wW3
Read the story of of DC desegregation from the pickets to the courts: washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/dcs-fighting-bar...
Photo by Addison N. Scurlock. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History: Archives Center.