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Exporting American Dreams
Mary L. Dudziak
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Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
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. While the struggle for rights on both continents played out on a global stage, it was a deeply personal journey for Marshall. Even as his belief in the equalizing power of law was challenged during his career as a Supreme Court justice, and in Kenya the new government sacrificed the rights he cherished, Kenya's founding moment remained for him a time and place when all things had seemed possible.
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Legislature, Tom Mboya, Activism, Lynching, Politics of the United States, Constance Baker Motley, Democracy, Uganda, Kenya African Democratic Union, Politics, Constitutionalism, Government, White supremacy, Freedom Riders, Brown v. Board of Education, Milliken v. Bradley, Colonialism, Martin Luther King, Jr., The New York Times, Bill of rights, United States Department of State, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Mau Mau Uprising, Slavery, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Black Power, United States, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Criticism, Kenya, Racial segregation, Equal Protection Clause, John F. Kennedy, Suffrage, Racism in the United States, Equality before the law, Black people, Decolonization, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Lawyer, Eminent domain, Citizenship, African Americans, Right to property, Assassination, Law enforcement, By-law, Mark Tushnet, Racism, Americans, Crime, Freedom of speech, Sit-in, Kenya African National Union, Minority rights, Civil disobedience, Voice of America, African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68), Desegregation, Nonviolence, Charles Hamilton Houston, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Lyndon B. Johnson, Black Power movement, Garner v. Louisiana, Employment, Protest, Kerner Commission, Jomo Kenyatta, Minority group