Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark

<p>An associate justice on the renowned Warren Court whose landmark ruling in <i>Brown v. Board of Education</i> overturned racial segregation in schools and other public facilities Tom C. Clark was a crusader for justice throughout his long legal career. Among many tributes Clark received Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger opined that no man in the past thirty years has contributed more to the improvement of justice than Tom Clark.</p> <p><i>Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark</i> is the first biography of this important American jurist. Written by his daughter Mimi Clark Gronlund and based on interviews with many of Clark's judicial associates friends and family as well as archival research it offers a well-rounded portrait of a lawyer and judge who dealt with issues that remain in contention today-civil rights the rights of the accused school prayer and censorship/pornography among them. Gronlund explores the factors in her father's upbringing and education that helped form his judicial philosophy then describes how that philosophy shaped his decisions on key issues and cases including the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II the investigation of war fraud the Truman administration's loyalty program (an anti-communist effort) the <i>Brown</i> decision <i>Mapp v. Ohio</i> (protections against unreasonable search and seizure) and <i>Abington v. Schempp</i> (which overturned a state law that required reading from the Bible each day in public schools).</p>