Editing Hugo Black (section)

==Legacy==
Hugo Black was twice the subject of covers of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine: On August 26, 1935, as a United States senator;<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19350826,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830125847/http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19350826,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 30, 2010 |title=Hugo La Fayette Black |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |at=Cover |date=August 26, 1935 |access-date=August 27, 2011}}</ref> and on October 9, 1964, as an associate justice (art by [[Robert Vickrey]]).<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19641009,00.html  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713041122/http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19641009,00.html  |url-status=dead  |archive-date=July 13, 2007 |title=Justice Black |magazine=Time |at=Cover |date=October 9, 1964 |access-date=August 27, 2011}}</ref>
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?75485-1/justice-black-tribute Profile of Hugo Black on the 25th anniversary of his death, September 28, 1996], [[C-SPAN]]}}
In 1986, Black appeared on the 5¢ postage stamp in the [[Great Americans series]] issued by the [[United States Postal Service]]. Along with [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]] he was one of only two Associate Justices to do so until the later inclusions of [[Thurgood Marshall]], [[Joseph Story]], [[Louis Brandeis]], [[Felix Frankfurter]], and [[William J. Brennan Jr.]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2009/pr09_080.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224054516/http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2009/pr09_080.htm|title=Supreme Court Justices Honored on Stamp Souvenir Sheet|archive-date=February 24, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.usps.com/news/2002/philatelic/sr02_053.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100207171148/http://www.usps.com/news/2002/philatelic/sr02_053.htm|title=United States Postal Service |website=Philatelic News |archive-date=February 7, 2010}}</ref>

In 1987, Congress passed a law sponsored by Alabama representative [[Ben Erdreich]], designating the new courthouse building for the [[U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama]] in [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], as the "Hugo L. Black United States Courthouse".<ref>[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d100:h.r.00614: H.R. 614] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408134250/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d100:h.r.00614: |date=April 8, 2016 }}</ref>

An extensive collection of Black's personal, senatorial, and judicial papers is archived at the Manuscript Division of the [[Library of Congress]], where it is open for research.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/blackh.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503010412/http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/blackh.html|title=Library of Congress manuscripts catalog, Hugo Black papers.|website=[[Library of Congress]]|archive-date=May 3, 2008}}</ref>

Justice Black is honored in an exhibit in the Bounds Law Library at the [[University of Alabama School of Law]]. A special Hugo Black collection is maintained by the library.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.library.law.ua.edu/spcoll/colls.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723165650/http://www.library.law.ua.edu/spcoll/colls.htm|title=Bounds Law Library, Hugo Black special collection.|archive-date=July 23, 2008}}</ref>

In his hometown of Ashland, a monument to Justice Hugo Black was dedicated on October 15, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.al.com/news/2022/10/hugo-black-monument-dedication-set.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409014818/https://www.al.com/news/2022/10/hugo-black-monument-dedication-set.html|title=AL.com, Hugo Black monument dedicated|date=October 13, 2022 |archive-date=April 9, 2023}}</ref>

Black served on the Supreme Court for thirty-four years, making him the fifth longest-serving Justice in Supreme Court history. He was the senior (longest serving) justice on the court for an unprecedented twenty-five years, from the death of Chief Justice [[Harlan F. Stone|Stone]] on April 22, 1946, to his own retirement on September 17, 1971. As the longest-serving associate justice, he was acting chief justice on two occasions: from Stone's death until [[Fred M. Vinson|Vinson]] took office on June 24, 1946; and from Vinson's death on September 8, 1953, until [[Earl Warren|Warren]] took office on October 5, 1953. There was no [[interregnum]] between the Warren and [[Warren Burger|Burger]] courts in 1969.{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}}