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Thurgood Marshall His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences

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ISBN-10: 1556523866

ISBN-13: 9781556523861

Edition: 2001

Authors: Mark V. Tushnet, Randall Kennedy, Randall Kennedy

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List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 552
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English

Earl J. Hess is associate professor of history at Lincoln Memorial University. He is author of many books on the Civil War, including, most recently, The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi.Mark V. Tushnet, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, is author, coauthor, or editor of twenty books, including a two-volume history of Thurgood Marshall's years on the Supreme Court.

Foreword
Introduction
Briefs and Oral Arguments
Lyons v. Oklahoma (1944)
Brown v. Board of Education (1952)
The School Desegregation Arguments (1952-1955)
Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
Writings as a Lawyer
"Equal Justice Under Law" (The Crisis, July 1939)
"Negro Discrimination and the Need for Federal Action" (Lawyers Guild Review, November 1942)
"The Gestapo in Detroit" (The Crisis, August 1943)
"The Legal Attack to Secure Civil Rights" (Speech at the NAACP Wartime Conference, 1944)
"Mr. Justice Murphy and Civil Rights" (Michigan Law Review, 1950)
"The Supreme Court as Protector of Civil Rights: Equal Protection of the Laws" (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, May 1951)
"Summary Justice--The Negro GI in Korea" (The Crisis, May 1951)
Remarks at a Testimonial Dinner Honoring Raymond Pace Alexander, November 25, 1951
"An Evaluation of Recent Efforts to Achieve Racial Integration in Education Through Resort to the Courts" (Journal of Negro Education, 1952)
"The Meaning and Significance of the Supreme Court Decree" (Journal of Negro Education, Summer 1955)
"The Rise and Collapse of the 'White Democratic Primary'" (Journal of Negro Education, Summer 1957)
Writings As a Judge
"Celebrating the Second Circuit Centennial" (St. John's University Law Review, 1991)
Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference [Civil Rights Enforcement and the Supreme Court's Docket] (September 8, 1978)
Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference [The Dangers of Judicial Restraint] (May 1979)
Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference [The Judiciary and Fundamental Human Liberties] (May 1980)
Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference [The Importance of Judicial Neutrality] (May 1981)
Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference [The Problem of Summary Disposition in the Supreme Court] (September 9, 1982)
Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference [Division on the Court and the "Need" for a New Appellate Court] (October 1, 1983)
Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference [The Need for Effective Remedies When Constitutional Rights Are Violated] (September 14, 1984)
Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference [Affirmative Action] (September 5, 1986)
Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference [Pretrial Detention] (October 17, 1987)
Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference [The Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel] (September 9, 1988)
Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference [The Future of Civil Rights] (September 8, 1989)
"Law and the Quest for Equality" (Washington University Law Quarterly, 1967)
"Group Action in Pursuit of Justice" (New York University Law Review, 1969)
Remarks of the Honorable Thurgood Marshall Upon the Occasion of His Acceptance of Honorary Membership in the Association of the Bar (November 20, 1973) (The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1974)
"Advancing Public Interest Law Practice: The Role of the Organized Bar" (American Bar Association Journal, 1975)
Remarks, New York State Bar Association on Receiving the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Service in Law (January 30, 1976)
Address at the Eighth Conference on the Law of the World (August 23, 1977)
Remarks at the American College of Trial Lawyers Spring Meeting (March 14, 1977)
Remarks of Mr. Justice Marshall: Acceptance of Learned Hand Medal (May 1, 1975)
Tribute to Charles H. Houston (Amherst magazine, Spring 1978)
Commencement Address, University of Virginia (May 21, 1978)
"Reflections on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution" (Harvard Law Review, 1987)
"Remarks on the Death Penalty Made at the Judicial Conference of the Second Circuit" (Columbia Law Review, 1986)
Remarks at the Annual Dinner in Honor of the Judiciary, American Bar Association (August 6, 1990)
"A Tribute to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr." (Harvard Law Review, 1990)
Judicial Opinions
Equal Protection
Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
Dandridge v. Williams (1970)
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973)
Affirmative Action
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson (1989)
Poverty
United States v. Kras (1973)
Ake v. Oklahoma (1985)
Bounds v. Smith (1977)
Privacy and Free Expression
Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
Police Department of the City of Chicago v. Mosley (1972)
Criminal Justice
Powell v. Texas (1968)
Payne v. Tennessee (1991)
Reminiscences
"The Reminiscences of Thurgood Marshall" (Columbia Oral History Research Office, 1977)
Selected Bibliography
Annotated List of Important Decisions
Permissions Acknowledgments
Index