many, many people know who thurgood marshall is. he was my childhood hero, and a hero to many americans because of the singular role he played in the legal history of the civil rights movement. of course, he famously litigated the case that desegregation of schools formally, brown v. board of education. and, of course, went on to become the nation's first african-american supreme court justice. because of his role in the legal history of the movement, civil rights movement, many, many books that are written about the legal history of the movement revolve around thurgood marshall and his conception of equality. well, my book is different. it begins with the question of what would the legal history of the civil rights movement look like if the work of thurgood marshall and the work of the supreme court justices were not so central to the story? what would we see? who would receive? and my book answers that question with this observation. if we move those familiar persons and institutions away from the center of analysis, we can see un

of course, a chief way in which thurgood marshall conceived equality. now, why would that have been? well, it was partly because he was interested in preserving the jobs of african-american school teachers. but also, it was because he was worried that in desegregated schools, african-american students would not have a nurturing school environment. so because of his skepticism of school desegregation, he didn't file a case to desegregate the schools in atlanta until 1958, although he promised thurgood marshall that he would file a case right after brown was decided in 1954. he also was slow in filing -- or carrying forth prosecuting the uga case. walden was replaced as lead counsel on the initial case to desegregate the university of georgia, which was filed in 1952. he was replaced because the ldf lawyers in new york thought he was too beholden to the white power structure to litigate the case aggressively. it fell to constance baker motley and donald hollowel to litigate that case to fruition in 1961, which was 11 years after walden initially started t

david westin's road and he spent 12 years as a teacher at their good marshall perfecting -- thurgood marshall in mathematics and science. in my time in 2000 through 2004, he rode his bike through the city before was fashionable. this is an example that grownups can ride their bike to school and not guzzle gas as adults and i get a lot of disinformation also in here from a former thurgood marshall teacher. he lost his quiet battle to leukemia. he was meeting with alumni students about the reunion and even the students about -- could not believe it. they had met with him weeks before. he was adamant about remaining in the classroom. one student says, i had mr. weston for geometry and he was the first teacher to show me the importance of perfection in mathematics. and what it meant. and how it affects my life and other lives. he never hesitated to give up his time to explain questions. he was truly dedicated in making math an important factor in a student's life and just so you understand, even the most difficult students, he helped them get mouth. one student had trouble and all the teachers as

i know thurgood marshall had many students treated to discredit recovery, too. >> in conversations with janet, she explained the breakdown. a good concentration of youth in district 10 would be at all well and o'connell, so we did take that into consideration. a lot of the constraints, and this is the first year in a cut program, we had was the timing and the funding was released and how much time we had to put an actual effective program together, so there are definitely some things that need to be fixed as we move forward, and we are doing the best we can to try to capture as many as we can, but again, we are up against a small time crunch, so we do want it to be effective. and we want to do a great job, but we did take all listings into consideration. >> you are looking to extend this program to next year? >> that would be my hope. >> what i think is going to happen next year is that so this cohort of ninth graders will have to graduate, and i think that is with the panic is. we're very concerned about that. it is a much more rigorous study to graduate, so we are looking -- we just d

i started doing research on that, thurgood marshall the late johnny cochran and john o'franklin, vernon jordan, spike leigh, our attorney eric holder, federal judges, ministers, every -- doctors. and it just amazed me how many people had encounters with racial profiling and most of them did nothing because do you know what they want? they don't want a million dollars a they didn't want a satisfaction of a lawsuit. they simply wanted an apology. and i say that to say maybe you can use these stories to remind other people there's not hopelessness but people who find themselves victimized by racial profiling can then tell the story and get all the people to respond to it. >> thank you very much for your time. >> booktv has over 100,000 twitter followers. be a part of the excitement. follow booktv on twitter to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information and talk directly with authors during our live programming. twitter.com/booktv. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> hi. i'm susan collins, senator from maine. i've always been an avid reader. i usua

one is comparing martin luther king to thurgood marshall, who is surprising to me, became a hero of thishe opinions of justice brenton. i would have thought of him a liberal. but his history is the tradition of the american revolution. he is winning arguments. in 1954, he won brown versus board of education. if there had been a republican president for that eight years, nine years, from '60 to '6 8, you never would have seen that. >> i think marshall and king would have been allies. >> thank you. >>> your teenage years can be some of the roughest of your life. but as uncomfortable as it can be to talk about teen problems, young people really do want answers. and our dr. oz has a program which encouraging teens to take charge of their health. here's what he asked them when he went to a local high school. >> she's gotten her boobies. >> reporter: remember that scene from the movie "sixteen candles"? it's an awkward time. and teens have questions. who better to clear up the confusion, than dr. oz, who was once an awkward teen himself. >> hi, guys. >> reporter: today, he brings his 16-year-o