Thurgood Marshall
American Revolutionary
Crown · Print & ebook · February 1, 2000
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice, from the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize “Magisterial . . . in Williams’ richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel.”—Jack E. White, Time Thurgood Marshall was the twentieth century’s great architect of American race relations.
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- Who it’s for
- A sweeping life story brings the courts, civil rights, and political conflict into close view.
- Themes
- Civil rights and race relations, School desegregation, American legal history
- Genres
- Lawyers & Judges, Black & African American Lives, Civil Rights
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice, from the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize “Magisterial . . . in Williams’ richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel.”—Jack E. White, Time Thurgood Marshall was the twentieth century’s great architect of American race relations. His victory in the Brown v.
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Board of Education decision, the landmark Supreme Court case outlawing school segregation in the United States, would have made him a historic figure even if he had never been appointed as the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court. He had a fierce will to change America, which led to clashes with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and Robert F. Kennedy. Most surprising was Marshall’s secret and controversial relationship with the FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. Based on eight years of research and interviews with over 150 sources, Thurgood Marshall is the sweeping and inspirational story of an enduring figure in American life who rose from the descendants of slaves to become an American hero.
Law and Upheaval
A sweeping life story brings the courts, civil rights, and political conflict into close view.
Come here for
- The human force behind a landmark school desegregation case
- A life that crossed paths with towering political figures
Expect
- A broad portrait of law and twentieth-century American life
- An account attentive to conflict, conviction, and controversy
Where it sits
| Black & African American Lives | 59% |
|---|---|
| Lawyers & Judges | 56% |
| Civil Rights | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Black & African American Lives
- Lawyers & Judges
- Courts & the Judiciary
- Authors
- Juan Williams
- Publisher
- Crown
- Published
- February 1, 2000
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Civil rights and race relations · School desegregation · American legal history
- Reading lane
- Black & African American Lives