Book Details
Orange Code:91141
Paperback:257 pages
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Sections:
1. "The Right Man and the Right Place": From the Second Circuit to the Supreme Court"2. "The Steam Roller Will Have to Grind Me Under": Marshall and the Brethren3. "Assumptions About How People Live": Working on the Supreme Court4. Unless Our Children Begin to Learn Together": Desegregating the Schools5. Vital Interests of a Powerless Minority": Equal Protection Theory6. Now, When a State Acts to Remedy . . . Discrimination": Affirmative Action7. "Compassion in Time of Crisis": The Death Penalty8. "We Are Dealing with a Man's Life": Administering the Death Penalty9. "Some Clear Promise of a Better World": The Jurisprudence of Thurgood Marshall
Description:
Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was the first African-American Justice. Based on thorough research in the Supreme Court papers of Justice Marshall and others, this book describes Marshall's approach to constitutional law in areas ranging from civil rights and the death penalty to abortion and poverty. It locates the Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991 in a broader socio-political context, showing how the nation's drift toward conservatism affected the Court's debates and decisions.
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