A defiant life : Thurgood Marshall and the persistence of racism in America / Howard Ball.
1998
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Author
Title
A defiant life : Thurgood Marshall and the persistence of racism in America / Howard Ball.
Published
New York : Crown Publishers, [1998]
Copyright
©1998
Call Number
KF8745.M34 B35 1998
ISBN
0517599317
Description
xix, 428 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)39069452
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-414) and indexes.
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Thurgood Marshall and the persistence of racism in America
Table of Contents
Chronology of "A Life Well Lived"
Acknowledgments
Foreword / William J. Brennan, Jr.
1
Born into Racism and Segregation in America
1
2
The Rise of the NAACP and Charlie Houston's "Social Engineers"
19
3
Marshall Joins the NAACP
40
4
"Thurgood's Coming": Mr. Civil Rights
57
5
Segregation in the Military: A Special Humiliation
95
6
The Public Education Battles Begin: Brown v. Board
114
7
The Segregation Battles Continue and the Civil Rights Movement Emerges
148
8
A New Life: Thurgood Marshall, Government Servant
175
9
Mr. Justice Marshall
200
10
The Meaning of Equality in the Fourteenth Amendment
221
11
Bakke and the Affirmative Action Battles: "They Just Don't Get It!"
255
12
Procedural Fairness and Substantive Justice: Realities and Myths
283
13
Marshall and First Amendment Freedoms
313
14
The Constitution as Evolving Guarantor of New Rights
355
15
Justice Marshall: Always the Outsider, Always Defiant
377
Research Notes
389
Bibliography
407
Case Index
415
General Index
419