![]() ![]() Haygood details Marshall’s remarkable career and the long journey that led to his tumultuous nomination to the Supreme Court, changing the course of American history. ![]() Armed with determination and charm, Marshall drew on his long history of battling segregationists to prepare for his showdown with the Senate. Democrats outnumbered Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the first hurdle toward nomination, but most of those Democrats were southerners, unlikely to favor the idea of naming a black man to the nation’s highest court. Wil Haygood talked about his book Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America, in which he examines the life and career of Justice Thurgood Marshall. With no vacancy to fill, Johnson orchestrated one and then prepared for what he knew would be a long and protracted battle. President Johnson faced a fierce battle to stop the nomination, led by the powerful Senator John McClellan of Arkansas, whose state was the front line of school-desegregation violence following the Brown decision won by Marshall. Supreme Court was another major turning point in American race relations. In the midst of the civil rights movement and the violent reactions to protests that helped with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the nomination of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. ![]()
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