Awards

• Winner of Winner of the 1984 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award 2021

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""The coalescence of speaker, sentiment, and site summarizes the story that is lovingly detailed in the pages of this jewel of American legal history.""--St. Louis Globe-Democrat ""A classic...[It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process.""--Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the foreword

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"""Thanks now to Groundwork Houston's contributions to the struggle for civil rights, and in particular his pivotal role in the effort to integrate American schools, have been documented."" * <i>New York Times</i> * ""A moving and long overdue testament of a singularly neglected giant of our history."" * <i>Ebony</i> * ""The coalescence of speaker, sentiment, and site summarizes the story that is lovingly detailed in the pages of this jewel of American legal history."" * <i>St. Louis Globe-Democrat</i> * ""The legal community is indebted to Dr. McNeil for her oustanding scholarship."" * <i>Harvard Law Review</i> *"

McNeil has filled a vast void with this book, and students in contemporary American legal history owe her an immense debt. -Derrick A. Bell, New York University Thanks now to Groundwork Houston's contributions to the struggle for civil rights, and in particular his pivotal role in the effort to integrate American schools, have been documented. -New York Times A moving and long overdue testament of a singularly neglected giant of our history. -Ebony The coalescence of speaker, sentiment, and site summarizes the story that is lovingly detailed in the pages of this jewel of American legal history. -St. Louis Globe-Democrat The legal community is indebted to Dr. McNeil for her oustanding scholarship. -Harvard Law Review

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Genna Rae McNeil is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago.

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