Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON SOURCES -- 1. The Legal Lynching of John Downer -- 2. The Great Migration -- 3. Life Was a Breeze -- 4. College Years -- 5. Sara Sutherland -- 6. Founding a Law Firm and Raising a Family -- 7. Gearing Up for War -- 8. The War Years -- 9. Building a Republican Party in Georgia -- 10. The 1952 Republican National Convention -- 11. The Washington Years -- 12. The Great Writ -- 13. Forming the Historic Fifth Circuit: Nine Men -- 14. Justice Is Never Simple: Brown I and II -- 15. From Plessy to Brown to Buses -- 16. The Desegregation of the University of Georgia -- 17. The Costs of Conscience -- 18. Oxford, Mississippi: The Battleground -- 19. The Fight for the Right to Vote -- 20. But for Birmingham -- 21. The Houston Conference -- 22. Moving On -- 23. The City Almost Too Busy to Hate -- 24. Family and Friends -- 25. A Jurisprudence of Justice -- 26. Hail to the Chief-and Farewell -- APPENDIX 1. Law Clerks to Judge Tuttle -- APPENDIX 2. Military Honors -- APPENDIX 3. Awards and Honors -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.