Contents -- Introduction: The Problem of Race and Rep -- 1. The Idea of the Representative Negro -- 2. Racial Identity and the Marketplace for Lawyers -- 3. The Role of the Courtroom in an Era of Segregation -- 4. A Shifting Racial Identity in a Southern Courtroom -- 5. Young Thurgood Marshall Joins the Brotherhood of the Bar -- 6. A Woman in a Fraternity of Lawyers -- 7. Things Fall Apart -- 8. The Strange Journey of Loren Miller -- 9. The Trials of Pauli Murray -- 10. A Lawyer as the Face of Integration in Postwar America -- Conclusion: Race and Representation in a New Century -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.