"I hope educators at every level are attracted to this book as a teaching tool." -Derrick Bell, from the foreword "Gloria Browne-Marshall's Race, Law, and American Societybuilds on the great vision of the late great Barbara Jordan: How will America become as great as its promise?  Black courageous citizens have been at the forefront of this movement.  This book is a gem."  -Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion, Princeton University "Brilliantly researched, Gloria Browne-Marshall's history of Race, Law, and American Societyis bold and challenging; dramatic, comprehensive, and galvanizing.  Everyone concerned about justice and dignity, civility, the law and human survival will want to read, and assign this book." -Blanche Wiesen Cook, University Distinguished Professor, John Jay College & The Graduate Center, CUNY and author of Eleanor Roosevelt "In this sophisticated survey of Supreme Court decisions, Gloria Browne-Marshall shows African Americans working to make 'liberty and justice' more than rhetoric-by pressing judges to expand freedom's scope from that for white men to the majority. All Americans owe Black Americans much for making the United States ever more democratic and justice-oriented." -Joe R.

Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Liberal Arts, Texas A & M University.