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Article: Hugo Black, paradox: Supreme Court justice and Klansman
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 16, 1994
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HUGO BLACK
A Biography.
By Roger K. Newman. Pantheon/Cornelia & Michael Bessie.
741 pp. Illustrated. $35.
Mark Feeney is editor of the Globe's Focus section.
It is a puzzle. Americans lavish attention on the executive
branch of government and, to a lesser degree, the legislative. Yet
when the history of the United States in the 20th century comes to be
written, any list of our nation's greatest public figures will tilt
disproportionately toward the judicial branch. What White House
residents, other than the three Roosevelts, deserve a place alongside
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Louis Brandeis, Earl Warren, William J.
Brennan -- or Hugo Lafayette Black?
Black served on the ...