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FH 77-10755 He made an excellent record at Lincoln. MARSHALL ere members and, for a while, officers of the Apna Phi Alpha fraternity, largest and oldest colored fra- ternity in the world. 7 7G 0x a Pa. The applicant also attended Howard University, Washington, D. C., where he pursued a law.course. While there he came under the influence of CHARLES H. HOUSTON. HOUSTON and had attended Harvard University together and were close friends. HOUSTON became the first colored Dean at the Howard University Law School. He waa a leader in the field of civil rights. HOUSTON was the first law professor to introduce a law course on civil rights in a law school. MARSHALL became a protege of HOUSTON and was an outstanding law student at Howard University. The applicant also had some law classes at Howard University under WILLIAM H. HASTIE, now a Judge in the Third Circuit, U. S. Court of Appeals. HOUSTON left Howard University and became Chief Counsel of the NAACP. HASTIE succeeded HOUSTON as Dean of Howard Uni- versity Law School. MARSHALL practiced law for awhile in the Baltimore, Md., area after his graduation from Howard University. He then followed HOUSTON to the NAACP and became HOUSTON's assistant at the NAACP. On HOUSTON's death around 1950, became the Chief Counsel for the NAACP. The a cant was first married to "BUNNY" MARSHALL for whom ad the utmost respect. There were no children by on. She died of cancer about ten years ag The applicant then “married a Filipino girl who was = ihe in the NAACP office but who is not known to There are two children by this union, of approximteiy toe ages of | two and five years, names unknown to bre THURGOOD MARSHALL has reached a position of pre- eminence as a conditutional lawyer. He is an aggressive type of person and well thought of throughout Pennsylvania. His character is deyond reproach and he 13 2 person who maintains high morals. There is no doudt in mind but that the he epplicant.s lopalty to the Unite ates is of the highest type. ecommended the applicant for the a a Onited states Federal Judge. ~h \A v