Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Haygood, Wil

Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America

Over the course of his forty-year career, Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and...
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Author: Wil Haygood
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Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Haygood, Wil

Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America

$44.93

Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America

$44.93
Author: Wil Haygood
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Wil Haygood
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/09/2016
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780307947376

About the Author
Wil Haygood is currently the Boadway Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence in the department of media, journalism, and film at Miami University, Ohio. For nearly three decades he was a journalist, serving as a national and foreign correspondent at The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and then at The Washington Post, where he wrote the story "A Butler Well Served by This Election," which became the basis for the award-winning motion picture The Butler, directed by Lee Daniels. Haygood's book The Butler: A Witness to History has been translated into a dozen foreign languages. For his work on Showdown, Haygood was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. His biographies of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Sammy Davis Jr., and Sugar Ray Robinson have all garnered wide acclaim.

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