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Book SynopsisAssembles the public presentations, occasional writings, speeches, and interviews of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall over a period of seven decades, from the 1930s to the 1990s.
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Table of ContentsPreface
Thurgood Marshall 1908-1993
PART I: THE LAWYER 1930s-1950s
The 1930s-1940s
Marshall and Houston Jailed (1932)
Letter to Dean Taylor Applying for Law School Position (1935)
The Gestapo in Detroit (1943)
Negro Status in Boilermaker Union (1944)
Saving the Race (1941)
The 1950s
From Law to Social Reality and Panel Discussion (1950)
Racial Integration in Education Through Resort to the Courts and Summit
Discussion (1952)
The Future Lies With Our Youth (1954)
Segregation and Desegregation (1954)
Interpretation of Supreme Court Decisions and the NAACP (1955)
Three Years After Brown I (1957)
The South on the Run (1957)
The Living Constitution: Civil Rights and the Negro (circa 1959)
Judicial Method in Due Process (1956)
The Rise and Collapse of the White Democratic Primary (1957)
Summary Justice: The Negro GI in Korea (1951)
Part II: SOLICITOR GENERAL, JUDGE, AND SUPREME COURT
JUSTICE, 1960s-1990s
The 1960s: Transition from Lawyer to Jurist
The United States as Moral Leader of the World (1961)
No Peace at Any Cost (1961)
The Courts (1964)
The Impact of the Constitution and Panel Discussion (1964)
Civil Rights in the United States (1966)
Remembering Lyndon B. Johnson and the Civil Rights Struggle (1969)
Group Action in the Pursuit of Justice (1969)
The 1970s
The Law Deals with a World of Individuals (1973)
Building a Tradition of Public Service (1976)
World Peace Through Law: An Urgent Task (1977)
Financing Public Interest Law Practice: The Role of The Organized Bar
(1975)
Who Is Best Qualified to Be a Judge? (1977)
Equality Before The Law; The Cardinal Principle of the Constitution (1978)
The Fulcrum of Pressure (1978)
The 1980s
Judicial Power and Respect for the People (1981)
Violations of the Constitution Require Corrective Relief (1984)
Moral and Fair Representation Issues in Death Penalty Cases (1985)
Charles Hamilton Houston (1987)
The Constitution: A Living Document (1987)
A Colorblind Society Remains an Aspiration (1987)
Right To Counsel (1988)
New Challenges Facing the Civil Rights Community (1989)
The 1990s
Looking Back (1992)
We Must Dissent (1992)
Appendix: The Fairness of the Reorganization Plan in Industrial
Corporations (1933)
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
