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Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey 1st Edition

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Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954. Six years later, he was at a crossroads. A rising generation of activists were making sit-ins and demonstrations rather than lawsuits the hallmark of the civil rights movement. What role, he wondered, could he now play? When in 1960 Kenyan independence leaders asked him to help write their constitution, Marshall threw himself into their cause. Here was a new arena in which law might serve as the tool with which to forge a just society.
In Exporting American Dreams , Mary Dudziak recounts with poignancy and power the untold story of Marshall's journey to Africa. African Americans were enslaved when the U.S. constitution was written. In Kenya, Marshall could become something that had not existed in his own country: a black man helping to found a nation. He became friends with Kenyan leaders Tom Mboya and Jomo Kenyatta, serving as advisor to the Kenyans, who needed to demonstrate to Great Britain and to the world that they would treat minority races (whites and Asians) fairly once Africans took power. He crafted a bill of rights, aiding constitutional negotiations that helped enable peaceful regime change, rather than violent resistance.
Marshall's involvement with Kenya's foundation affirmed his faith in law, while also forcing him to understand how the struggle for justice could be compromised by the imperatives of sovereignty. Marshall's beliefs were most sorely tested later in the decade when he became a Supreme Court Justice, even as American cities erupted in flames and civil rights progress stalled. Kenya's first attempt at democracy faltered, but Marshall's African journey remained a cherished memory of a time and a place when all things seemed possible.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0195329015
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0195329018
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  5. Publication date
    July 2, 2008
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    9.32 x 0.97 x 6.07 inches
  8. Print length
    272 pages
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In 1960, at the height of his fame following the Brown decision, Thurgood Marshall visited Kenya, then just embarking on independence from Britain. With his iconic status, Marshall advised Kenyans during constitutional negotiations with Great Britain, in which the political rights of black Africans were weighed against protection for the white minority. Marshall witnessed firsthand the African aspirations for independence, and the complications of race, as Africans found inspiration in the U.S. history of freedom from colonial power and the ongoing American struggle with racial strife. Legal and history professor Dudziak explores Marshall’s friendships with Tom Mboya, the labor organizer who invited him to Kenya, and Jomo Kenyatta, who went on to become Kenya’s first elected president. She also explores the turbulence that continued to brew in the U.S. as the civil rights movement grew to full force at the same time that African nations were fighting for independence. Marshall was privileged to have a front seat in the struggles in the U.S. and Africa, putting to the test his personal faith in the American ideals of freedom and democracy. --Vanessa Bush

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"Readers who enjoy a thoughtful, accessible book that covers a seminal period in the histories of the two countries will appreciate the rich material this book provides."--Andrew Grant-Thomas, History: Reviews of New Books

"Effectively sketches those events in the civil rights movement... Dudziak's clarity and careful documentation make her book accessible to the general reader and a valuable tool for African and African-American studies."--Publishers Weekly

"Dudziak brings out with impressive clarity how Thurgood Marshall's greatness stemmed from his Whitman-esque ability to contain multitudes: committed to the rule of law, he could chide Kenya's new leadership for departing even slightly from it, work for justice in segregated America, and sustain a relationship with young civil rights activists taking direct and 'illegal' action in the early 1960s."--Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School and author of Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1956-1961

"This book on a less-studied part of Marshall's career is recommended for libraries collecting in law, legal processes, and African and African American history."--Library Journal

"Dudziak's narrative proceeds by deftly interweaving the historical events of the 1960s in the United States and Kenya, with Marshall as the focal point and link.... The true genius [of the book] is in using Marshall as both a concrete and conceptual link between the civil rights protest movements of the early and late 1960s and the tactical and principled choices of US civil rights leaders or the leaders of the Kenyan independence movement.... Thought provoking and painstakingly researched."--Law & Politics Book Review

"In this gem of a book, Mary Dudziak brings vividly to life the important but little known history of Thurgood Marshall's intense involvement with Kenya during its journey toward independence in the 1960s. This great champion of the American civil rights struggle never relinquished his hope that democracy and equality would one day flourish in Kenya, even as he became painfully aware of the obstacles that stood in the path of this dream. A powerful and poignant story, beautifully told."--Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University and author of American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century

"By dint of creative and exhaustive research, Mary Dudziak has written an excellent book about a facet of Thurgood Marshall's career that has never before received substantial attention. Who knew that 'Mr. Civil Rights' contributed significantly to African as well as American legal systems. All students of this great man's life owe a major debt to Professor Dudziak's labors."--Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School and author of Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

Mary L. Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams successfully explores the relations between Thurgood Marshall and Africa through the prism of African American connections with Africa during the twentieth century... The book suggests the fleeting nature of democratic ideals in the mid-twentieth century, the exportation of which was easily spoiled when they became a fleeting illusion, rather than a feasible dream, in the lives of African Americans in the United States... a promising scholarship."--H-Net Reviews

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (July 2, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195329015
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195329018
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.24 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.32 x 0.97 x 6.07 inches
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Mary L. Dudziak

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Mary L. Dudziak teaches legal history and constitutional law at Emory University School of Law. Her work sets American history in a global context. Cold War Civil Rights explores the relationship between civil rights and foreign relations during a time when American race discrimination undermined U.S. prestige around the world. Exporting American Dreams tells the story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenya's emerging leaders as they sought independence in the early 1960s. Dudziak's newest book, War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences, examines ideas about time that are embedded in the way we think about war, helping to explain why we persist in thinking that war is temporary when American military engagement seems to have no end point. More book information can be found at mdudziak.com.

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