Exporting American dreams : Thurgood Marshall's African journey /

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Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960's. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education, Marshall aided Kenya's...

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Front matter --
CONTENTS --
Map of Kenya --
List of Illustrations --
Introduction --
1. Marshall and Mboya --
2. A Tricky Constitution --
3. Writing Rights --
4. Discriminating Friends --
5. Anarchy Is Anarchy --
Epilogue --
Appendix: Thurgood Marshall's Draft Bill of Rights for Kenya, 1960 --
Notes --
Acknowledgments --
Afterword to the Paperback Edition --
Index
1. Verfasser:
Dudziak, Mary L.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Ausgabe:
1st pbk. ed.
Zusammenfassung:
Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960's. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education, Marshall aided Kenya's constitutional negotiations, as adversaries battled over rights and land--not with weapons, but with legal arguments. Set in the context of Marshall's civil rights work in the United States, this transnational history sheds light on legal reform and social change in the midst of violent upheavals in Africa and America. While the struggle for rights on both continents played out on a global stage, it was a deeply personal journey for Marshall. Even as his belief in the equalizing power of law was challenged during his career as a Supreme Court justice, and in Kenya the new government sacrificed the rights he cherished, Kenya's founding moment remained for him a time and place when all things had seemed possible.
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1 online resource (279 p.)
Issued also in print.
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Description based upon print version of record.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786613439796
9781283439794
1283439794
9781400839896
1400839890
Schlagworte:
Marshall, Thurgood, > 1908-1993.
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