Rawn James, Jr. is a DC-based writer and a former assistant attorney general for the District of Columbia, where he still practices law. His writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Northern Virginia Magazine, Primavera Literary Magazine, and the Adirondack Review. He is also a regular contributor to the website of the local NBC television station. He is active in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the nation's oldest African-American fraternity, of which Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall were also members.
"With deft portrayals of Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood
Marshall and captivating accounts of the cases they were involved
in, Rawn James, Jr. brings back to our attention two central
figures in the nation's efforts to use constitutional law to
confront and overcome our history of segregation and racism."--Mark
Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law
School"Rawn James, Jr.'s moving and gracefully written "Root and
Branch" reconstructs one of the most influential collaborations in
American history. With artful prose and careful scholarship, James
documents how Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall--first
as teacher and student, and later as trusted friends and
colleagues--spearheaded the NAACP's epochal legal assault on Jim
Crow."--Raymond Arsenault, author of "Freedom Riders "and "The
Sound of Freedom""Very informative, serious, and easy to
read."--"Booklist""A generally informative, readable account of the
struggle, in Marshall's words, 'to eliminate root and branch all
vestiges of racial discrimination.'"--"Kirkus Reviews""In his new
book Root and Branch, Rawn James Jr...has done an outstanding job
in recounting the tale...makes for compelling reading...James's
book makes a valuable contribution to our collective remembrance of
two extraordinary lawyers."--"The Washington Lawyer"
“With deft portrayals of Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood
Marshall and captivating accounts of the cases they were involved
in, Rawn James, Jr. brings back to our attention two central
figures in the nation’s efforts to use constitutional law to
confront and overcome our history of segregation and racism.”—Mark
Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law
School“Rawn James, Jr.’s moving and gracefully written "Root and
Branch" reconstructs one of the most influential collaborations in
American history. With artful prose and careful scholarship,
James documents how Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood
Marshall—first as teacher and student, and later as trusted friends
and colleagues—spearheaded the NAACP's epochal legal assault on Jim
Crow.”—Raymond Arsenault, author of "Freedom Riders "and "The Sound
of Freedom"
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