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The riveting story of the two crusading lawyers who led the legal battle to end segregation, one case and one courtroom at a time. The Supreme Courts decision in Brown v. Board of Education is widely considered a seminal point in the battle to end segregation, but it was in fact the culmination of a decades-long legal campaign. Root and Branch is the epic story of the two fiercely dedicated lawyers who led the fight from county courthouses to the marble halls of the Supreme Court, and, in the process, laid the legal foundations of the civil rights movement. Charles Hamilton Houston was the After becoming the first African-American on the Harvard Law Review , he transformed the law school at all-black Howard University into a West Point for civil rights advocacy. One of Houstons students at Howard was a brash young man named Thurgood Marshall. Soon after Marshalls graduation, Houston and Marshall opened the NAACPs legal office. The abstemious, proper Houston and the folksy, easygoing Marshall made an unlikely duo, but together they faced down angry Southern mobs, negotiated with presidents and senators, and convinced even racist judges and juries that the Constitution demanded equal

Author

James Jr., Rawn

Publisher

Bloomsbury Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781608193899

Subjects

Law, Social Science, Memoir

Rating

4.21 / 5 (91 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13