Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation

by Rawn James Jr.

Book Overview

Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of court challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling Jim Crow one statute at a time.

Charles Hamilton Houston laid the groundwork, reinventing the law school at Howard University (where he taught a young, brash Thurgood Marshall) and becoming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608193896
• ISBN13: 9781608193899
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"