04027cam a2201093 4500 530420084 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385353168 0385353162 B00SEF11CO Amazon b0cb5416-8c36-4c49-ad34-c562f3743a8f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 215001 215001 215001 2184831 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Haygood, Wil. Showdown [Libby] : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. politics. Biography. racism. Graduation. Senate. Law. Award. marshall. mother. african. lawyer. johnson. autobiographies. Justice. Civil. segregation. father. Wil. American. supreme. winning. Criminal Justice. The. NAACP. Presidents. women. black. constitution. for. lyndon. kennedy. rights. Inspirational. attorney. court. gifts. gift. Movement. us. Men. biographies. f. john. History. jail. Books. Authors. school. lawyers. butler. in. Showdown. ferguson. political books. V. plessy. biographies of famous people. thurgood. law books. haygood. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 14MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 14MB. Biography & Autobiography. Law. Multi-Cultural. Nonfiction. HTML: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 stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional impact of his inspiring best seller <i>The Butler</i> to detail the life and career of one of the most transformative legal minds of the past one hundred years.<br /> <br /> 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... Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b0cb5416-8c36-4c49-ad34-c562f3743a8f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b0cb5416-8c36-4c49-ad34-c562f3743a8f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b0cb5416-8c36-4c49-ad34-c562f3743a8f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)