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f r @ é *. ‘ 7 . October 18, 1947 Re: PHURGOOD MARSHALL I. BEOGRAPHICAL DATE a According to a letter from the NAACP dated September / 19, 1947, Thurgood Marshall appears on a list of executive of fi- cers of the Assoctation as Special Counsel, a He was listed as a sponsor of the American Civil Liberties Unton, (Southern California Branch, ) according to the Annual Report of the organization for 1939. According to information received in 1942, Marshall was + on the Board eof Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union. - Gn February 10, 1944, there was an announcement of the results of a nationwide poll by the Schomburg Collection of egro Literature of the New York Public Library to determine the sta white individuals or organizations and the twelve Negro in- dividuals or organizations which had done the most outstanding work during the preceding year for the improvement of race-~- relations. Among the Negroes nominated was Thurgood Morshall. “The Daily Worker on July 1, 1946, indicated that. Mar- ‘shall received the Spingarn .Medal, the NAACP 's highest award, J for his work in defense of Negroes, at the 37th Conference of the organization tn Cincinnati. A report of the Special Committee on Un-American : jo? activities lists Thurgood Marshall as being an officer af the "SL International Jurtdical Association. This same report on page 609 lists him as a member of the National Committee of this assoctation from Maryland. Identt fication records reflect that one Thurgood Mor- shali, Negro, born July 2, 1908, at Baltimore, Maryland, was fingerprinted in the Virgin Tslands on Gctober 1, 1946, when < he applted for a passport. These prints were searched against the criminal files of the Identification Division on October 15, i947, and no record was found. II. IDEOLOGICAL SYMPATHTES The NAACP had a two-day conference in Florence, South Carolina, on June 13 and 14, 1943, at which Thurgood Marshall was the princtpal speaker. Gerard Anderson, who was then prinectpal of the ¥ilson colored school in Florence; South Caro~ lina, stated that he hed met Marshall and believed him to be a ioyal American who would go as far as he could te further the aims of his organization but would not permit anything radical to be done to accomplish the desired. end. One AA g- IENCLOSURE