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This is a chronological narrative history of the legal struggle that preceded the political battles for American civil rights in the early 20th-century, waged by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and its leader, Thurgood Marshall. The study describes the legal reasoning that animated this ""Constitutional revolution"", showing how the slow development of doctrine and precedent reflected an overall legal strategy of Marshall and the NAACP.