ASSOCIATE JUSTICE HUGO L. BLACK - ENVELOPE SIGNED - HFSID 287095
Price: $200.00
HUGO L. BLACK
As Associate Justice, he signs an envelope bearing the postmarks of Hugo,
Minnesota and Black, Texas.
Envelope signed: "Hugo L. Black/Associate Justice/U.S. Supreme Court",
6½x3¾. Envelope bears a 1965 postmark from Black, Texas; and a 1985 postmark
from Hugo, Minnesota. Black (1886-1971), was a Democratic Senator from
Alabama (1927-1937) before being appointed to the Supreme Court by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, where he served from 1937 to 1971. On the
Court his judicial opinions supported FDR's New Deal economic and social
legislation. Later he became noted for his defense of the Bill of Rights
as an absolute guarantee of personal rights. Black was a "strict
constructionist," insisting that the Constitution did not "evolve" without
formal amendment. This is a position associated in later years with more
conservative Justices. Although he had been a Ku Klux Klan member in the
1920s and filibustered an anti-lynching bill in the Senate, Black strongly
supported the Court's desegregation decisions stemming from Brown v Board
of Education. Lightly toned around edges. Corners lightly worn. Otherwise,
fine condition.
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