The Last Good Man

February, 1993

This article was adapted from "Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall," by Carl T. Rowan, to be published by Little, Brown. Rowan is a nationally syndicated and award-winning journalist whose relationship with Marshall spanned three decades. As Marshall's fierce passion for individual rights succumbed to the conservative majority, he was particularly eloquent in their defense, as his dissents illustrate (see sidebar). Few knew Marshall as Rowan did, or cou...