![]() ![]() ![]() He and his wife, Harriette, were killed in 1951 when their Florida house was dynamited. Others were less fortunate, including a Marshall friend, the anti-lynching and voting-rights activist Harry Moore. He reminds us that the indignities of segregation were enforced by the threat of violence, and that Marshall himself narrowly escaped danger on multiple occasions. Johnson, who was determined to push through his historic selection (but also had a backup plan). Haygood sketches the backdrop of the nomination fight, including the Detroit riots, protests against the Vietnam War, and the machinations of President Lyndon B. ![]() Whatever his personal failings, Marshall appears saint-like beside the racially bigoted, politically opportunistic Southern senators who opposed his Supreme Court nomination - men such as Mississippi’s James Eastland, Arkansas’s John McClellan, North Carolina’s Sam Ervin (the Constitutional prodigy of later Watergate fame), and South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond (the Dixiecrat turned Republican who as a young man fathered a daughter with his family’s black maid). ![]()
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