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  title info:
    title: Showdown
    sub title: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination that changed America
  name:
    name part: Haygood, Wil
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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, including 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 p…
  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.
  note: Wil Haygood.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Marshall, Thurgood
      name part: 1908-1993
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Supreme Court
    topic: Officials and employees
    topic: Selection and appointment
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Judges
    topic: Selection and appointment
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: KF8745.M34 H394 2015
  classification: 347.73/2634
  identifier: 9780307957191
  identifier: 0307957195
  identifier: 9780385353168
  identifier: 9780307947376
  identifier: 0307947378
  identifier: 2014044440
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141112
    record change date: 20160307080003.0
    record identifier: in00003608272