Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation [1st PRINT/SIGNED]

James Jr., Rawn

ISBN 10: 1596916060 / ISBN 13: 9781596916067

Published by Bloomsbury Press, 2010

About this Item

Bloomsbury Press, 2010, New York. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Stated "First U. S. Edition 2010", first printing with a full number line starting at "1". 9-1/2" tall, 276 numbered pages includes "Notes" and "Index", followed by an unnumbered page of "A Note on the Author"; one-piece black binding, gilt lettering on spine; front board is plain; plain ivory end pages; fore edge is trimmed. Book is square, hinges tight, corners not bumped, no dings on edges, head and heel of spine lightly bumped, interior clean and unmarked; no page corners folded or damaged; no staining or discoloration. Jacket is clean; no tears, folds or fading; very slight crease at head of spine, moderate crease at heel; slight shelf wear; 1-3/4" x 1-3/4" white-on-green publisher's "AUTOGRAPHED / COPY" sticker in the upper right corner; publisher's original price of "U.S. $28.00" listed on the upper right corner of front flap. Condition of book and jacket consistent with not being read (or being very gently read). No other discernible or objectionable faults on book or jacket such as marks or writing within, stains, tears, chips, or other damage that would diminish its appearance. No remainder mark, no previous owner markings or inscriptions, not price clipped, not a book club edition, not a former library book. Signed artistically by the author in thin black felt pen in the middle of title page below his printed name. Seller Inventory # BMR-2022-7-12-2

Bibliographic Details

Title: Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Press

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The riveting story of the two crusading lawyers who led the legal battle to end segregation, one case and one courtroom at a time.  The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education is widely considered a seminal point in the battle to end segregation, but it was in fact the culmination of a decades-long legal campaign. Root and Branch is the epic story of the two fiercely dedicated lawyers who led the fight from county courthouses to the marble halls of the Supreme Court, and, in the process, laid the legal foundations of the civil rights movement.  Charles Hamilton Houston was the pioneer: After becoming the first African-American on the Harvard Law Review, he transformed the law school at all-black Howard University into a West Point for civil rights advocacy.  One of Houston’s students at Howard was a brash young man named Thurgood Marshall. Soon after Marshall’s graduation, Houston and Marshall opened the NAACP’s legal office. The abstemious, proper Houston and the folksy, easygoing Marshall made an unlikely duo, but together they faced down angry Southern mobs, negotiated with presidents and senators, and convinced even racist judges and juries that the Constitution demanded equal justice under law for all American citizens.  Houston, tragically, would die before his strategy came to fruition in the Brown suit, but Marshall would argue the case victoriously and go on to become the first African-American Supreme Court justice—always crediting his mentor for teaching him everything he knew. Together, the two advocates changed the course of American history.

About the Author:

A graduate of Yale University and Duke Law School, Rawn James Jr. has been writing and practicing law in Washington, D.C., for nearly ten years. Like Houston and Marshall, he is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He lives with his wife and son a few blocks from the home where Houston raised his family.