01 May 2008

Thurgood Marshall Bibliography and Web Sites

A list of resources for Thurgood Marshall

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books

Aldred, Lisa. Thurgood Marshall: Supreme Court Justice. Philadelphia , PA: Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.

Ball, Howard. A Defiant Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America. New York: Crown Publishers, 1998.

Bland, Randall Walton. Private Pressure on Public Law: The Legal Career of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1973.

Bland, Randall Walton. Justice Thurgood Marshall, Crusader for Liberalism: His Judicial Biography. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, ©2001.

Davis, Michael D., and Hunter R. Clark. Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group, 1994.

Fenderson, Lewis H. Thurgood Marshall: Fighter for Justice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.

Goldman, Roger L. with David Gallen. Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1992.

Greenberg. Jack. Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Marshall, Thurgood. Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

Rowan, Carl Thomas. Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1993.

Tushnet, Mark V. Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Tushnet, Mark V. Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Tushnet, Mark V. Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2001.

Williams, Juan. Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. New York: Times Books, 1998.

Articles

Baine, Kevin T. "Wit, Wisdom, and Compassion of Justice Thurgood Marshall," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 20 (Spring 1993), pp. 497-502.

Barker, Lucius J. "Thurgood Marshall, the Law, and the System: Tenets of an Enduring Legacy," Stanford Law Review, Vol. 44 (Summer 1992), pp. 1237-1247.

Bloch, Susan Low. "Thurgood Marshall: Courageous Advocate, Compassionate Judge," Georgetown Law Review, Vol. 80 (1993), pp. 2003-2009.

O'Connor, Sandra Day. "Thurgood Marshall: The Influence of a Raconteur." Stanford Law Review, Vol. 44 (Summer, 1992), pp. 1217-1220.

Williams, Juan. "Marshall's Law: The Triumph of Thurgood Marshall," The Washington Post Magazine (Jan. 7, 1990), p. SM12-29.

WEB SITES

Thurgood Marshall Before the Courts
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/marshall
Transcript of a hour-long radio documentary about the life of Thurgood Marshall, with interviews by his contemporaries. The Web site also contains biographical information, materials from the landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation lawsuit, and the civil rights struggle.

Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/home.htm
Companion Web site to Juan Williams' biography of Thurgood Marshall. Includes sections from the biography, Justice Marshall's famous speeches and articles, and segments from interviews with Justice Marshall.

Thurgood Marshall Biography and Timeline
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/hill/marshall.htm

Thurgood Marshall Photo Gallery
http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/gallery/gallery.htm

Oral History of Thurgood Marshall
From the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library Collection
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/MarshallT/marshall.pdf
Thurgood Marshall recounts his observations and meetings with President Johnson in this full-text oral history.

Marshall's Appointment to the Supreme Court
http://members.aol.com/klove01/marshall.htm
Contains the video of Marshall's appointment to the Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall Bibliography
http://www.founders.howard.edu/moorland-spingarn/MARSHALL.HTM
Written after Justice Marshall's death in 1993, this comprehensive bibliography contains books, book reviews, dissertation, and magazine and newspaper articles by and about Marshall.

Thurgood Marshall: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?faid/faid:@field(DOCID+ms001047)
A description of the archival materials from Marshall files housed at the Library of Congress.

Historical FBI Records on Thurgood Marshall
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/marshall.htm
Thousands of pages of documents from the FBI files documenting threats to Marshall's life, interviews about his fitness to be a federal judge, and his non-involvement in the Communist Party.

[The U.S. Department of State assumes no responsibility for the content and availability of the resources from other agencies and organizations listed above. All Internet links were active as of May 2008.]