Byron l white (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 84 pages. 8.46x7.99x0.28 inches. In Stock.

An original black and white photograph of the 1967 Warren Supreme Court, boldly signed by all nine justices. A group portrait showing the justices in two rows, signed in the blank lower margin, each justice near his own portrait:Â Abe Fortas, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, John Marshall Harlan, Hugo Black, Earl Warren, William O. Douglas, and William J. Brennan. In near fine condition. The photograph measures 8 inches by 10 inches. The Warren Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969, the years in which Earl Warren served as Chief Justice. One of the most transformative periods in the Court's history, the Warren Court handed down a series of landmark decisions that reshaped American life, from Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down racial segregation in public schools, to Gideon v. Wainwright, Miranda v. Arizona, and Reynolds v. Sims. This photograph captures the Court near the end of the Warren era, following the 1967 appointment of Thurgood Marshall, the great civil rights lawyer who had argued Brown before the Court and who became the first African American to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court.…