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Dream makers, dream breakers : The world of Justice Thurgood Marshall / Carl T. Rowan.

By:

Rowan, Carl T. (Carl Thomas), 1925-2000 [author, Interviewer]

Contributor(s):

Marshall, Thurgood [interviewee]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston, MA : Little, Brown & Company, c1993.Edition: First editionDescription: xvii, 475 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

0316759783 :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

323.1/196073/00922 20

LOC classification:

E 185.615 .R65 1993

Online resources:

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Contents:

Chapter one: Changing the "American way of life" -- Chapter two: The making of a man -- Chapter three: The early years -- Chapter four: Revenge - Then a national crusade -- Chapter five: Warfare among NAACP blacks -- Chapter six: A black agenda emerges -- Chapter seven: Triple murder -- Chapter eight: Race wars -- Chapter nine: Winning the right to vote -- Chapter ten: "Lady Big Heart" -- Chapter eleven: Arming blacks with trained intelligence -- Chapter twelve: Soldier troubles -- Chapter thirteen: A destructive marriage -- Chapter fourteen: Jim crow's last stand? -- Chapter fifteen: Sudden death -- Chapter sixteen: Dream breaker George Wallace -- Chapter seventeen: Marshall the jurist - and his nemesis -- Chapter eighteen: The court - and its nonviolent revolution -- Chapter nineteen: Mr. Justice Marshall's role -- Chapter twenty: A nation of men, not laws -- Chapter twenty-one: Disillusionment and retirement -- Chapter twenty-three: The Clarence Thomas fiasco -- Chapter twenty-four: Measuring Marshall without sentiment.

Summary: "According to Carl Rowan, writing this biography was tantamount to trying to write the social, legal, economic, political, and moral history of this nation over most of the twentieth century. Crucial events in American history, such as the black migration out of the South, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Depression, and the African-American revolution of the 1960s are portrayed within the context of Justice Marshall's mission to fulfill the promise of equal justice for every American." -- From Google Books.Summary: "'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 words of Thurgood Marshall - legendary civil rights lawyer, solicitor general of the United States, the first black justice of the Supreme Court. And here, at last is the first major biography of Justice Marshall. Written by the prize winning author Carl T. Rowan, in intimate anecdotes and impassioned voice, 'Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall' presents an incisive portrait of the extraordinary life and career of this great figure who came to be known as 'Mr. Civil Rights.' With unprecedented access to hundreds of closed files of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, drawing upon countless conversations with Marshall over their forty-year friendship as well as exclusive interviews with him, Rowan chronicles Thurgood Marshall's reckless early years in Jim Crow Baltimore, his triumphs with the NAACP as the nation's most renowned civil rights lawyer - Marshall changed America by winning the landmark Brown v. Board of Education school segregation case in 1954 - and his stormy twenty-four year tenure as a United States Supreme Court justice." -- From book dust-jacket.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKS	Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library	E 185.615 .R65 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		NPML21030003

Includes bibliographical references (pages [455]-457) and index.

"According to Carl Rowan, writing this biography was tantamount to trying to write the social, legal, economic, political, and moral history of this nation over most of the twentieth century. Crucial events in American history, such as the black migration out of the South, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Depression, and the African-American revolution of the 1960s are portrayed within the context of Justice Marshall's mission to fulfill the promise of equal justice for every American." -- From Google Books.

"'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 words of Thurgood Marshall - legendary civil rights lawyer, solicitor general of the United States, the first black justice of the Supreme Court. And here, at last is the first major biography of Justice Marshall. Written by the prize winning author Carl T. Rowan, in intimate anecdotes and impassioned voice, 'Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall' presents an incisive portrait of the extraordinary life and career of this great figure who came to be known as 'Mr. Civil Rights.' With unprecedented access to hundreds of closed files of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, drawing upon countless conversations with Marshall over their forty-year friendship as well as exclusive interviews with him, Rowan chronicles Thurgood Marshall's reckless early years in Jim Crow Baltimore, his triumphs with the NAACP as the nation's most renowned civil rights lawyer - Marshall changed America by winning the landmark Brown v. Board of Education school segregation case in 1954 - and his stormy twenty-four year tenure as a United States Supreme Court justice." -- From book dust-jacket.

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