Thurgood Marshall: Mr. Civil Rights and the Fight for Racial Justice

by David L. Hudson Jr.

Audiobook

Published September 1, 2020

About the author

David L. Hudson Jr. is a scholar at the First Amendment Center. Hudson writes for firstamendmentcenter.org and for other publications devoted to First Amendment issues. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 books, including several on the U.S. Supreme Court, the Constitution and student rights.

He is a First Amendment contributing editor for the American Bar Association’s Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases. Hudson graduated from Duke University in 1990 and obtained a law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1994. He teaches First Amendment classes at Nashville School of Law and Vanderbilt University Law School. He also teaches at Middle Tennessee State University.

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

My wife and I listened to this series of lectures on our way to the Utah Shakespeare Festival, as homework for seeing the one-man play "Thurgood." The play gave more of a feeling for the man, but the lectures give a great overview not only of the man and his career (I didn't realize that he had served as Solicitor General before being nominated for the Supreme Court) but also of his judicial philosophy, some of his more significant decisions, and even of some of his more famous law clerks. It is sad to think of where the Court has gone since the heydays of the Warren Court with giants such as Justice Marshall, Hugo Black, William Brennan, and the Chief Justice, who garnered the support for a unanimous Brown v. Board of Education, the most significant decision of the last century.