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Author Dudziak, Mary L

Title Exporting American Dreams : Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Contents EXPORTING AMERICAN DREAMS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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
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 1960s. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
SUBJECT Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 fast
Subject Civil rights -- Kenya -- History -- Sources
Constitutional history -- Kenya -- Sources
Judges -- United States -- Biography
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
Civil rights
Constitutional history
Judges
Politics and government
SUBJECT Kenya -- Politics and government -- To 1963. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072004
Subject Kenya
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011927726
ISBN 9781400839896
1400839890
1283439794
9781283439794
0691152446
9780691152448