Showdown : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination that changed America / Wil Haygood.
2015
KF8745.M34 H394 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Showdown : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination that changed America / Wil Haygood.
Author
Haygood, Wil, author.
ISBN
9780307957191 (hardcover)
0307957195 (hardcover)
9780385353168 (electronic book)
0307957195 (hardcover)
9780385353168 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Language
English
Description
viii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
KF8745.M34 H394 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
347.73/2634
Summary
"The author of The Butler presents a revelatory biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice--one of the giants of the civil rights movement, and one of the most transforming Supreme Court justices of the 20th century, "--Novelist.
Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional impact of his inspiring best seller The Butler to detail the life and career of one of the most transformative legal minds of the past one hundred years. Using the framework of the dramatic, contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice, Haygood creates a provocative and moving look at Marshall's life as well as the politicians, lawyers, activists, and others who shaped--or desperately tried to stop--the civil rights movement of the twentieth century: President Lyndon Johnson; Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whose scandals almost cost Marshall the Supreme Court judgeship; Harry and Harriette Moore, the Florida NAACP workers killed by the KKK; Justice J. Waties Waring, a racist lawyer from South Carolina, who, after being appointed to the federal court, became such a champion of civil rights that he was forced to flee the South; John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy; Senator Strom Thurmond, the renowned racist from South Carolina, who had a secret black mistress and child; North Carolina senator Sam Ervin, who tried to use his Constitutional expertise to block Marshall's appointment; Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who stated that segregation was "the law of nature, the law of God"; Arkansas senator John McClellan, who, as a boy, after Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House, wrote a prize-winning school essay proclaiming that Roosevelt had destroyed the integrity of the presidency; and so many others. This galvanizing book makes clear that it is impossible to overestimate Thurgood Marshall's lasting influence on the racial politics of our nation.--From publisher description.
Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional impact of his inspiring best seller The Butler to detail the life and career of one of the most transformative legal minds of the past one hundred years. Using the framework of the dramatic, contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice, Haygood creates a provocative and moving look at Marshall's life as well as the politicians, lawyers, activists, and others who shaped--or desperately tried to stop--the civil rights movement of the twentieth century: President Lyndon Johnson; Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whose scandals almost cost Marshall the Supreme Court judgeship; Harry and Harriette Moore, the Florida NAACP workers killed by the KKK; Justice J. Waties Waring, a racist lawyer from South Carolina, who, after being appointed to the federal court, became such a champion of civil rights that he was forced to flee the South; John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy; Senator Strom Thurmond, the renowned racist from South Carolina, who had a secret black mistress and child; North Carolina senator Sam Ervin, who tried to use his Constitutional expertise to block Marshall's appointment; Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who stated that segregation was "the law of nature, the law of God"; Arkansas senator John McClellan, who, as a boy, after Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House, wrote a prize-winning school essay proclaiming that Roosevelt had destroyed the integrity of the presidency; and so many others. This galvanizing book makes clear that it is impossible to overestimate Thurgood Marshall's lasting influence on the racial politics of our nation.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-382) and index.
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Table of Contents
Bound for Room 2228
The ghosts of Little Rock
Willie and Norma Marshall's brave son
Battling with a legendary country lawyer
A "Philadelphia Negro" suddenly on standby
Thurgood Marshall and his Southern hero
The chairman goes AWOL, and the hunt is on for anti-Marshall votes
"The Jew"
The long memory of Evangeline Moore
Return of the prosecutors
Painful interruptions for a president and his nominee
Dear Mr. President
A rebel's last roar
Flames
The Constitution
Thurgood Marshall's stand in LBJ's Texas
A nominee in limbo
Good evening, Mr. Justice Marshall
Requiem for Thurgood.
The ghosts of Little Rock
Willie and Norma Marshall's brave son
Battling with a legendary country lawyer
A "Philadelphia Negro" suddenly on standby
Thurgood Marshall and his Southern hero
The chairman goes AWOL, and the hunt is on for anti-Marshall votes
"The Jew"
The long memory of Evangeline Moore
Return of the prosecutors
Painful interruptions for a president and his nominee
Dear Mr. President
A rebel's last roar
Flames
The Constitution
Thurgood Marshall's stand in LBJ's Texas
A nominee in limbo
Good evening, Mr. Justice Marshall
Requiem for Thurgood.