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A defiant life : Thurgood Marshall and the persistence of racism in America / Howard Ball.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Crown Publishers, c1998.Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 428 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0517599317 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KF8745.M34 B35 1998
Contents:
Chronology of "a life well lived" -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword / William J. Brennan, Jr. -- Born into racism and segregation in America -- The rise of the NAACP and Charlie Houston's "social engineers" -- Marshall joins the NAACP -- "Thurgood's coming": Mr. Civil rights -- Segregation in the military: a special humiliation -- The public education battles begin: Brown v. Board -- The segregation battles continue and the civil rights movement emerges -- A new life: Thurgood Marshall, government servant -- Mr. Justice Marshall -- The meaning of equality in the fourteenth amendment -- Bakke and the affirmative action battles: "they just don't get it!" -- Procedural fairness and substantive justice: realities and myths -- Marshall and first amendment freedoms -- The constitution as evolving guarantor of new rights -- Justice Marshall: always the outsider, always defiant -- Research notes -- Bibliography -- Case index -- General index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-414) and indexes.

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Chronology of "a life well lived" -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword / William J. Brennan, Jr. -- Born into racism and segregation in America -- The rise of the NAACP and Charlie Houston's "social engineers" -- Marshall joins the NAACP -- "Thurgood's coming": Mr. Civil rights -- Segregation in the military: a special humiliation -- The public education battles begin: Brown v. Board -- The segregation battles continue and the civil rights movement emerges -- A new life: Thurgood Marshall, government servant -- Mr. Justice Marshall -- The meaning of equality in the fourteenth amendment -- Bakke and the affirmative action battles: "they just don't get it!" -- Procedural fairness and substantive justice: realities and myths -- Marshall and first amendment freedoms -- The constitution as evolving guarantor of new rights -- Justice Marshall: always the outsider, always defiant -- Research notes -- Bibliography -- Case index -- General index.