The Life of Thurgood Marshall

Published: Oct. 10, 2015, 4 p.m.

Best-selling author Wil Haygood talks about his new book, \u201cShowdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America.\u201d The book profiles the first African American Supreme Court justice using the contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm Marshall in 1967 as a framing device for his life story.