# Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan in New York, New York, 2010 October 23

Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memorial and his service in the segregated army during World War II. He recounts his career as a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, including the Brown v. Board of Education case and other legal cases that ended segregation.

- Kind: Interview
- Year: 2010
- Runtime: 3 h 6 min
- By: Sullivan, Patricia
- Genres: Education, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669100/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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