Showdown : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination that changed America / Wil Haygood.
| Author/creator |
Haygood, Wil author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2015 |
| Description | viii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | http://supremecourthistory.org/timeline_marshall_thurgood.html |
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| Portion of title | Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination that changed America |
| 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 -- Epilogue : Requiem for Thurgood. |
| 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. 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: 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."--Book jacket. |
| General note | "Borzoi Book" |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-382) and index. |
| Awards note | Ohioana book award for nonfiction, 2016 |
| LCCN | 2014044440 |
| ISBN | 9780307957191 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0307957195 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9780307947376 |
| ISBN | 0307947378 |
| Standard identifier# | 40025243043 |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | KF8745.M34 H394 2015 | Item has been checked out - Due: 08/20/2024 | Want This? |