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Showdown : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination that changed America / Wil Haygood.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015Description: viii, 404 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0307947378
  • 0307957195
  • 9780307947376
  • 9780307957191
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Contents:
Bound for Room 2228 -- Day One : Thursday, July 13, 1967. The ghosts of Little Rock ; Willie and Norma Marshall's brave son -- Day Two : Friday, July 14, 1967. 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 -- Day Three : Tuesday, July 18, 1967. Return of the prosecutors ; Painful interrogations for a President and his nominee ; Dear Mr. President -- Day Four : Wednesday, July 19, 1967. A rebel's last roar ; Flames -- Day Five : Monday, July 24, 1967. The Constitution ; Thurgood Marshall's stand in LBJ's Texas -- Post-hearing : July 25-August 30, 1967. A nominee in limbo -- Confirmation : September 1, 1967. Good evening, Mr. Justice Marshall -- Requiem for Thurgood.
Summary: "The author of The Butler presents a revelatory biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice--one of the giants of the civil rights movement, and one of the most transforming Supreme Court justices of the 20th century,"--Novelist.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Over the course of his forty-year career, 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. In this galvanizing biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood uses the framework of the dramatic, contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice, to weave a provocative and moving look at Marshall's life as well as at the politicians, lawyers, activists, and others who shaped--or desperately tried to stop--the civil rights movement. An authoritative account of one of the most transformative justices of the twentieth century, Showdown makes clear that it is impossible to overestimate Thurgood Marshall's lasting influence on the racial politics of our nation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-382) and index.

Bound for Room 2228 -- Day One : Thursday, July 13, 1967. The ghosts of Little Rock ; Willie and Norma Marshall's brave son -- Day Two : Friday, July 14, 1967. 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 -- Day Three : Tuesday, July 18, 1967. Return of the prosecutors ; Painful interrogations for a President and his nominee ; Dear Mr. President -- Day Four : Wednesday, July 19, 1967. A rebel's last roar ; Flames -- Day Five : Monday, July 24, 1967. The Constitution ; Thurgood Marshall's stand in LBJ's Texas -- Post-hearing : July 25-August 30, 1967. A nominee in limbo -- Confirmation : September 1, 1967. Good evening, Mr. Justice Marshall -- Requiem for Thurgood.

"The author of The Butler presents a revelatory biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice--one of the giants of the civil rights movement, and one of the most transforming Supreme Court justices of the 20th century,"--Novelist.

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