Juan williams thurgood marshall biography supreme court

. . in Williams’ richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel.”—Jack E. White, Time

Thurgood Marshall was the twentieth century’s great architect of American race relations.

Juan williams thurgood marshall biography supreme court

His victory in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the landmark Supreme Court case outlawing school segregation in the United States, would have made him a historic figure even if he had never been appointed as the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court.

He had a fierce will to change America, which led to clashes with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and Robert F. Kennedy. Most surprising was Marshall’s secret and controversial relationship with the FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover.

Based on eight years of research and interviews with over 150 sources, Thur