Dream Makers, Dream Breakers The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall

by Rowan, Carl T.

• ISBN13: 9780316759786
• ISBN10: 0316759783
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-01-25
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

Long, readable account of the life and times of Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Author Biography

Until his death in September 2000, Carl T. Rowan was one of America's most distinguished journalists as well as a Peabody and Emmy-winning columnist and television and radio commentator

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Changing "the American Way of Life"	p. 3
The Making of a Man	p. 22
The Early Years	p. 33
Revenge--Then a National Crusade	p. 50
Warfare among NAACP Blacks	p. 58
A Black Agenda Emerges	p. 69
Triple Murder	p. 79
Race Wars	p. 98
Winning the Right to Vote	p. 124
"Lady Big Heart"	p. 130
Arming Blacks with Trained Intelligence	p. 143
Soldier Troubles	p. 159
A Destructive Marriage	p. 170
Jim Crow's Last Stand?	p. 182
Sudden Death	p. 220
Dream Breaker George Wallace	p. 251
Marshall the Jurist--and His Nemesis	p. 272
The Court--and Its Nonviolent Revolution	p. 310
Mr. Justice Marshall's Role	p. 322
A Nation of Men, Not Laws	p. 348
Marshall with and without Law Clerks	p. 376
Disillusionment and Retirement	p. 393
The Clarence Thomas Fiasco	p. 418
Measuring Marshall without Sentiment	p. 432
Bibliography	p. 455
Index	p. 459
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