Integration of the University of Maryland Law School

Subject

Donald G. Murray, Unknown Photographer, Baltimore, Maryland, October 14, 1939, AFRO American Newspapers Archives

Description

In 1935, Donald Gaines Murray Sr. (1914-1986) was recruited by the NAACP to apply to the University of Maryland Law School, knowing he would be rejected based on his race. Following the rejection, Murray and the NAACP sued the University of Maryland, stating that their refusal violated Plessy v. Ferguson. Murray won, and after graduating in 1938, he joined the NAACP legal team and fought to integrate the rest of the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Source

“Then I talked to several lawyers about going to graduate school somewhere here to get some help in the course of that. I was fortunate enough to run across William Gosnell and Thurgood Marshall and they were in the process of trying to get students to enter the University of Maryland Law School.” — Donald G. Murray Oral History

Geolocation

Collection

McKeldin-Jackson Project

Citation

“Integration of the University of Maryland Law School,” Passion and Purpose, accessed April 24, 2024, https://passionandpurpose.omeka.net/items/show/12.