Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (652 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1608193896 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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They repeatedly went before the U.S. As dean of the Howard Law School, he modeled the rigor and organization of Harvard Law School and the army to produce top-rated lawyers who committed their careers to overturning Jim Crow laws. The book portrays the partnership of Houston (as legal theorist, strategist, and mentor), Thurgood Marshall (disciple), and Walter White (NAACP chief and financier), and other civil-rights lawyers. Supreme Court and its affiliates to argue in favor of ending lynching, the poll tax, all-white juries, pay inequality, and unequal educational opportunity for blacks and whites. One of his students was Thurgood Marshall. --Mohamed Sherriff . From Booklist James successfully reincarnates the life of Charles Hamilton Houston, who graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law School (serving as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review) and served in the army during World War I. to abide by its luminous promise to ensure safety and provide
"Insightful and Engaging" according to T. White. Root and Branch is meticulously researched and beautifully written. Rawn James, Jr.'s book is a significant contribution to the understanding of the evolution of civil rights and education in America. The subject, The Struggle to End Segregation, is as relevant and important today as it was in the 1960s. Root and Branch emphasizes the central role education plays in a successful democracy and the future of America by exploring a time when equal education was considered danger. "Great product" according to Salimah Damani. Nice book.. Before the King, Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X . This book was superbly written, well researched, and delivered in an evenhanded, marvelous way. Segregation is a hot topic, and it could be expected that an author investigating a story of desegregation could descend into emotionality and political demagoguery. In other books examining our racist history, authors have sometimes couched the history as apologetics for modern political ideologies.Mr. James did not fall into that trap. He kept his own political leanings his own,
Later, Houston and Marshall traveled through the South, often at great personal risk, chipping away, case by case, at the legal foundations of racial oppression. The buttoned-up Houston and the easygoing Marshall made an unlikely pair-but their partnership made an unforgettable impact on American history.. Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of court challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling Jim Crow one statute at a time.Charles Hamilton Houston laid the groundwork, reinventing the law school at Howard University (where he taught a young, brash Thurgood Marshall) and becoming special counsel to the NAACP