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Jan. 10, 2009

The Face of American Progress

In an excerpt of her book "Exporting American Dreams," Mary L. Dudziak describes Thurgood Marshall's journeys in Kenya. - Book Excerpt

BOOK EXCERPT

By Mary L. Dudziak

It must have seemed bright, the morning sun on the Nairobi airstrip, as the small plane carrying the judge and the young lawyer touched down. They had flown through the night, but the occupants of the plane were very much awake.

July 1963. The runway cut the same path across the flat plain south of the city as it had before. But much had changed in the three years since Thurgood Marshall had last been to Ken...

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