Join the Government and Law Department as the College adds a portrait of the first African- American US Supreme Court Justice to the Kirby Collection of Historical Paintings. A champion of civil rights and advocate for racial equality, Thurgood Marshall served as Chief Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and secured the 1954 landmark victory in Brown v. Board of Education, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine and the legal segregation it sustained.
The portrait has been commissioned by the Kirby Family with support provided by the F.M. Kirby Foundation and created by award-winning portraitist Ying-He Liu. Please join us for a reception, unveiling, and brief remarks, featuring, among others, Bruce Murphy, Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights.
Refreshments will be served.