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Dream makers, dream breakers : the world of Justice Thurgood Marshall /

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"We can run from each other, but we cannot escape each other. Knock down the fences that divide. Tear apart the walls that imprison. Reach out: freedom lies just on the other side." Those are the vibrant words of Thurgood Marshall - legendary civil rights lawyer, solicitor general of the U...

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Main Author: Rowan, Carl T. (Carl Thomas), 1925-2000 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1993]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Marshall, Thurgood, > 1908-1993.
Marshall, Thurgood, > 1908-1993
Marshall, Thurgood, > (1908-1993)
Marshall, Thurgood.
United States. > Supreme Court > Biography.
United States. > Supreme Court.
Etats-Unis. Supreme Court > Biographies.
1900-1999
African Americans > Civil rights.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Judges > United States > Biography.
African American judges > Biography.
African Americans > history.
African Americans.
Civil Rights > history.
African American judges.
Civil rights movements.
Judges.
Civil Rights Movement.
Students > Legal status, laws, etc > Biography.
Noirs américains > Droits.
Juges > États-Unis > Biographies.
Civil rights movements > History.
Judges > Biography.
United States.
African American judges > Biography
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements > History > 20th century > United States
Judges > Biography > United States
Marshall, Thurgood
United States / Supreme Court > Biography
Biography.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Changing "the American way of life"
  • The making of a man
  • The early years
  • Revenge : then a national crusade
  • Warfare among NAACP blacks
  • A black agenda emerges
  • Triple murder
  • Race wars
  • Winning the right to vote
  • "Lady Big Heart"
  • Arming blacks with trained intelligence
  • Soldier troubles
  • A destructive marriage
  • Jim Crow's last stand?
  • Sudden death
  • Dream breaker George Wallace
  • Marshall the jurist : and his nemesis
  • The court : and its nonviolent revolution
  • Mr. Justice Marshall's role
  • A nation of men, not laws
  • Marshall with and without law clerks
  • Disillusionment and retirement
  • The Clarence Thomas fiasco
  • Measuring Marshall without sentiment.