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Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall

According to Carl Rowan, writing a book about the life and career of Thurgood Marshall was "tantamount to trying to write the social, legal, economic, political, and moral history of this nation over most of the twentieth century." Dream Makers, Dream Breakers, the impassioned biography of the first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, achieves just that: the violent years of the black migration out of the postbellum South; the frightening rise of the Ku Klux Klan; the Great Depression; two world wars; and the African-American revolution that took place in our courtrooms and in our streets — are magnificently portrayed within the context of Justice Marshall's unrelenting mission to fulfill the promise of equal justice for every American.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 475
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781566492355
  • Genres
  • history, biography
  • Release date
  • 2002