Introduction: the problem of race and represetation -- 1. The idea of the representative negro -- 3. The role of the courtoom in an era of segrgation -- 4. A shifting racial identitu in a Southern Courtrooom -- 5. Young thurgood marshall joins the brotherhood of the bar -- 6. A woman in a fraternity of lawyers -- 7. Things fall apart -- 8. The strange journey of Loren Miller -- 9. The trials of Pauli Murray -- 10. A lawyer as the face of integration in postwar America -- Conclusión: Race and representation in a New Century -- Notes -- Acknpwledgments -- Index