Lawyers & Judges, Courts, Legal History, Discrimination & Racism, Thurgood Marshall, Marshall, Biography 

"Profiles the life and works of Thurgood Marshall, with his speeches, writings, arguments, opinions and reminiscences." - Voila 

Content:
Briefs and oral arguments. Lyons v. Oklahoma (1944) ; Brown v. Board of Education (1952) ; School Desegregation Arguments (1952-1955) ; Cooper v. Aaron (1958) -- Writings as a lawyer. Equal Justice Under Law ; Negro Discrimination and the Need for Federal Action ; Gestapo in Detroit ; Legal Attack to Secure Civil Rights ; Mr. Justice Murphy and Civil Rights ; Supreme Court as Protector of Civil Rights: Equal Protection of the Laws ; Summary Justice - The Negro GI in Korea ; Remarks at a Testimonial Dinner Honoring Raymond Pace Alexander, November 25, 1951 ; Evaluation of Recent Efforts to Achieve Racial Integration in Education Through Resort to the Courts ; Meaning and Significance of the Supreme Court Decree ; Rise and Collapse of the 'White Democratic Primary' -- Writings as a judge. Celebrating the Second Circuit Centennial ; Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference: [Civil Rights Enforcement and the Supreme Court's Docket] ; [The Dangers of Judicial Restraint] ; [The Judiciary and Fundamental Human Liberties] ; [The Importance of Judicial Neutrality] ; [The Problem of Summary Disposition in the Supreme Court] ; [Division on the Court and the Need for a New Appellate Court] ; [The Need for Effective Remedies When Constitutional Rights Are Violated] ; [Affirmative Action] ; [Pretrial Detention] ; [The Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel] ; [The Future of Civil Rights] ; Law and the Quest for Equality ; Group Action in Pursuit Justice ; Remarks of the Honorable Thurgood Marshall Upon the Occasion of His Acceptance of Honorary Membership in the Association of the Bar ; Advancing Public Interest Law Practice: The Role of the Organized Bar ; Remarks, New York State Bar Association on Receiving the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Service in Law ; Address at the Eighth Conference on the Law of the World ; Remarks at the American College of Trial Lawyers Spring Meeting ; Remarks of Mr. Justice Marshall: Acceptance of Learned Hand Medal ; Tribute to Charles H. Houston ; Commencement Address, University of Virginia ; Reflections on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution ; Remarks on the Death Penalty Made at the Judicial Conference of the Second Circuit ; Remarks at the Annual Dinner in Honor of the Judiciary, American Bar Association ; Tribute to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. -- Judicial opinions (equal protection, affirmative action, poverty, privacy and free expression, criminal justice). Milliken v. Bradley (1974) ; Dandridge v. Williams (1970) ; San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) ; Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) ; City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson (1989) ; United States v. Kras (1973) ; Ake v. Oklahoma (1985) ; Bounds v. Smith (1977) ; Stanley v. Georgia (1969) ; Police Department of the City of Chicago v. Mosley (1972) ; Powell v. Texas (1968) ; Payne v. Tennesse (1991) -- Reminiscences. Reminiscences of Thurgood Marshall. 

Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-516) and index.