Donald Gaines Murray (1913-1986)
MSA SC 3520-12494

Sources:

Books -

Davis, Michael D. and Hunter R.. Clark.  Thurgood Marshall:  Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench.  New York:  Birch Lane Press, 1992.

Rowan, Carl T.  Dream Makers, Dream Breakers:  The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall.  Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1993.

Williams, Juan.  Thurgood Marshall:  American Revolutionary.  New York:  Random House, 1998.

Newspaper/journal articles -

Kuebler, Edward J. "Desegregation of the University of Maryland," Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 37-49.

"State Education Ills to Be Aired in Md. Univ. Suit."  The Afro-American, 6 (?) May 1935.

"Court Ends Md. U's Color Bar."  The Afro-American, Week of 22 June 1935.

"Donald Gaines Murray Sr. dies at 72; sued, entered UM law school in 1935."  The Baltimore Sun, 10 April 1986.

Maryland State Archives, Documents for the Classroom Series -

University v. Murray, 169 Md. 478 (1936)

From Segregation to Integration: The Donald Murray Case, 1935-1937

Reference Materials prepared for the Consideration of the Commission on the Thurgood Marshall Memorial Statue in Annapolis

Maryland State Archives -

Maryland State Archives DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DIVISION OF VITAL RECORDS (Death Record), MSA T1890, 3/69/2/. (Death certificate incorrectly states birth year as 1923 instead of 1913).

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Maryland History Slide Collection), MSA SC 1260-129.  Photo of Thurgood Marshall, Donald Gaines Murray, and Charles Huston.

Maryland State Archives BALTIMORE CITY COURT (Court Papers) University v. Murray, 169 Md. 478 (1936), MSA C174, 3/32/1/1.

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg Collection of materials relating to Charles Hamilton Houston and Donald Gaines Murray at Amherst College) MSA SC 5216.

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