Brown v. Board of Education, The Cold War, and Thurgood Marshall’s African Journeys with Mary Dudziak
Featured Speaker: Mary Dudziak, Professor of Law, History, and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law School
January 22, 2009,
5:00 – 8:30 pm
ESD 112 Conference Center
Mary Dudziak, Professor of Law, History, and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law School (and founder of the Legal History Blog), discussed topics addressed in two of her books, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy and Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey. The program deepened our work with both Constitutional Connections and Causes of Conflict through adding a global dimension to our study of the US Constitution and the Civil Rights Movement.
Documents to aid an understanding of Brown (and, in turn, the modern Civil Rights Movement) in a Cold War context:
- Mary Dudziak, Brown as a Cold War Case
- Excerpt from Amicus brief for the U.S. in Brown v. Board of Ed
- The Brown decision
Documents for understanding Thurgood Marshall in Kenya:
- Exporting American Dreams Chapter 1
- Exporting American Dreams pp. 37-54
- Exporting American Dreams pp. 65-80
- Exporting American Dreams pp. 90-96
- Thurgood Marshall’s Draft Bill of Rights for Kenya, 1960
Additional resources include:
- Mary Dudziak’s law review article on Marshall’s 1960 episode
- Mary Dudziak’s Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative
- American Radio Works’ Thurgood Marshall Before the Court
- The Smithsonian’s Separate is Not Equal site
- The Teaching the Journal of American History postings related to James Meriwether’s article “‘Worth a Lot of Negro Votes’: Black Voters, Africa, and the 1960 Presidential Campaign”
- Professor Dudziak’s November 2006 podcasted presentation at Duke, “Working Toward Democracy: Thurgood Marshall and the Constitution of Kenya”