Cover of Brief of Appellee in Bell v. Maryland

Papers of the NAACP and William H. Hastie Collections LibGuide is an online research guide created by the Thurgood Marshall Law Library that provides an inventory of the law library’s electronic and microfilm collections of select NAACP papers as well as papers of prominent African-American jurist and statesman William Hastie.

The library's digital subscription to the ProQuest History Vault includes the NAACP’s major campaigns regarding:

  • Education
  • Voting
  • Housing
  • Employment
  • Armed forces
  • Scottsboro
  • Anti-lynching
  • Criminal justice
  • Peonage
  • Labor
  • Segregation and discrimination complaints and pesponses
  • Legal Department files

In addition, the law library has a small collection of original NAACP reports, documents, and publications donated by Professor Larry Gibson. Select NAACP papers may be searched by subject in the library's online catalog.

Questions? Just Ask the law library at law-library@law.umaryland.edu.

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