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Exporting American dreams : Thurgood Marshall's African journey / Mary L. Dudziak ; with a new afterword by the author.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dudziak, Mary L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
- Marshall, Thurgood.
- Civil rights--Kenya--History--Sources.
- Civil rights.
- Constitutional history--Kenya--Sources.
- Constitutional history.
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- Kenya--Politics and government--To 1963.
- Kenya.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9786613439796
- 9781283439794
- 1283439794
- 9781400839896
- 1400839890
- OCLC:
- 774272236
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