Published by Ebooks for Students, Ltd. November, 2012. Available at Amazon.

From His Early Years to Brown

Michael D. Davis and Hunter R. Clark

Published by Ebooks for Students, Ltd.

Reviews

Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench by Michael D. Davis & Hunter R. Clark, originally published in 1992.

This ebook edition is the first half of the 1992 print edition. It covers Thurgood- Mar shall’s youth, education, and the legal strategies he used, and the cases he argued lead- ing up to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The reviews below are from the print edition.

“Michael D. Davis and Hunter R. Clark offer a masterfully written tale of an American legend.” — Gannett News Service

“Filled with the same fire, passion and humor that drove Marshall’s life, Thurgood Marshall is a revealing portrait of a pioneering lawyer.” —National Black Review

“Well-written, informative and lively.” —People

“This important work, ably chronicled by Davis and Clark, is impressive. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal

“As a guide to the legal struggles of this American leader, this book is written clearly and with obvious affection and admiration for Marshall, and the law for which he fought.” —Booklist

“Michael Davis and Hunter Clark have crafted a thoughtful, carefully researched and focused biography.” —USA Today

3 “I highly recommend Thurgood Marshall by Mike Davis and Hunter Clark. This impressive book captures the sweeping drama and courageous struggles that have filled Thurgood Marshall’s life and career. The story of Jus- tice Marshall is that of one of the greatest Americans in the twentieth century. Davis and Clark provide a com- pelling portrait of Marshall’s immense humanity and integrity in this fine biography.” —Congressman of Atlanta.

“Thurgood Marshall is a giant of a man at a time when giants are scarce and desperately needed. This wonder- ful biography takes his measure.” —(Rev.) Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame

“Davis and Clark have given us an engagingly written and conscientiously researched biography of a twentieth- century icon. It should be widely read and much discussed by all who care about the large, principled issues Jus- tice Marshalls’ life embodies.” —David Levering Lewis, author of W. E. B. Dubois: Biography of a Race

“Michael B. Davis and Hunter R. Clark have written an interesting and informative biography of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall directed toward a general audience. The current work, with its fluid, readable style, reflects the authors’ backgrounds in the popular press, where both have published extensively.”--Mississippi Quarterly

4 Dedication

This book is dedicated to the memory of Michael Demond Davis (1939-2003), my friend and co-author of Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench (1992, 1994), upon which this epublication is based. Scripture admonishes us, “From those to whom much is given, much is expected.” (Luke 12:48) Mike Davis sure lived up to that one in the pursuit of justice and human rights.

5 Contents

Reviews

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1: A Rumpled Bear of a Man

Chapter 2: A Cunning and Powerful Strategist

Chapter 3: Growing Up in Baltimore

Chapter 4: Howard Law School and the Social Engineers

Index of Principal Cases Cited

Select Bibliography

Index

Copyright

Attention Teachers

About the Authors

6 Introduction

The Lawyer as Hero: Thurgood Marshall’s Legacy

met Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) in the early 1970s when I was a teenager working as a page in the IU.S. Supreme Court. My parents were his contemporaries, and, like millions of Americans, they knew him as “Mr. Civi