Contents Prologue A Public Enemy 1 Way Up South 2 College Days 3 Top Man in the Class 4 The Equalization Strategy 5 A Social Engineer 6 Speaking Out 7 Mr Civil Rights 8 Brown v Board of Education 9 Massive Resistance 10 Judge Marshall 11 A More Perfect Union 12 Legacy timeline selected writings of thurgood marshall notes bibliography acknowledgments Index 1 6 28 37 55 74 89 104 127 147 164 187 214 222 224 228 240 244 245
Prologue A Public Enemy The year was 1967 America was in tumult African Americans were protesting in the streets demanding equality Women too were demanding equality and they too were marching A few militants even talked about using violence to secure equal rights for African Americans People were protesting the war in Vietnam Some of the protesters openly flouted the law College campuses and cities Thirty thousand Civil Rights demonstrators gathered outside the Alabama State capitol following their march from Selma to Montgomery 1965 1
