Exporting American Dreams Thurgood Marshall's African Journey

Name: Exporting American Dreams Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
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ISBN: 9780195329018

ISBN-10: 0195329015

ISBN-13: 9780195329018

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mary L. Dudziak

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Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954. Six years later, he was at a crossroads. A rising generation of activists were making sit-ins and demonstrations rather than lawsuits and legal maneuvering the hallmarks of the civil rights movement. What role, he wondered, could he now play? When in 1960 Kenyan independence leaders asked him to help write their constitution, Marshall seized the occasion and threw himself into their cause. Here was a new arena in which law might serve as the tool with which to forge a just society, an opportunity to prove that legal means offered the brightest hope for…

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List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/2/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Mary L. Dudziak is professor of law, history, and political science at the University of Southern California. Her books include "Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey", "September 11 in History", and "Legal Borderlands".



Introduction



Marshall and Mboya



Tricky Constitution



Writing Rights



Discriminating Friends



Anarchy is Anarchy


Epilogue


Appendix: Thurgood Marshall's Draft Bill of Rights for Kenya, 1960