Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey

by Mary L. Dudziak

Book Overview

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 the hallmark 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 threw...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195329015
• ISBN13: 9780195329018
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"