Hugo Black delivering his acceptance speech after receiving the Thomas Jefferson Medal from the Southern Conference for Human Welfare at the municipal auditorium in Birmingham, Alabama.
Seated behind Black are Louise Charlton, John Temple Graves II, John H. Bankhead, Josephine Black, and Dr. Sterling Foster. Black represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1937, and he served as an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court from 1937 to 1971.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/77150 |