![]() ![]() While the southern Senators on the Judiciary Committee could not block the nomination from going to the Senate, they employed strategies to slow it down and to cast sufficient aspersions on the character and judicial record of Marshall to jeopardize his confirmation. The work is organized around the five days of hearings through which Haygood weaves the narrative of Marshall’s life. This work by Wil Haygood focuses on the showdown between Marshall and the southern members of the Senate Judiciary Committee opposed to his nomination during its hearings on the nomination before it was forwarded to the full Senate in the summer of 1967. Among his foremost accomplishments was the appointment of the first Black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. ![]() Probably the most shining legacy of the presidency of Lyndon Johnson were the advances he oversaw with civil rights against the opposition of southern Democrats in his own party. ![]() Summary: An account of the life of and rise to the Supreme Court of Thurgood Marshall structured around the five days of hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America, Wil Haygood. ![]()
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