Wil Haygood - Showdown Thurgood Marshall And The Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America - 2015 [EN]

"Showdown by Wil Haygood" is a Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (14.3 MB). Written by Wil Haygood. The book spans approximately 434 pages with 138,886 words. Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional impact of his inspiring best seller The Butler to detail the life and career of one of the most transformative legal minds of the past one hundred years. Using the framework of the dramatic, contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justic...