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NAACP life member Thurgood Marshall, (center) NAACP special counsel, receives plaque denoting his life membership in NAACP from Kivie Kaplan of Boston, Mass., co-chairman of Association's Life Membership Committee. Looking on is Arthur B. Spingarn, NAACP president /

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  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Civil Rights Leaders
  4. Kaplan, Kivie
  5. Marshall, Thurgood
  6. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  7. People
  8. Photographic Prints
  9. Spingarn, Arthur B

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