Buxton Books is honored to be the booksellers for The Charleston Library Society’s Speaker Series with Armand Derfner. Derfner will be in conversation with Deborah Kennedy Kennard.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Justice Deferred dives into addressing nearly two hundred cases involving America’s racial minorities. The authors probe the parties involved, the justices’ reasoning, and the impact of individual rulings. We learn of heroes such as Thurgood Marshall; villains, including Roger Taney; and enigmas like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Hugo Black. Much of the fragility of civil rights in America is due to the Supreme Court, but as this sweeping history also reminds us, the justices still have the power to make good on the country’s promise of equal rights for all.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Armand Derfner has been a civil rights lawyer for over fifty years. He has been counsel for, among others, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and helped desegregate university systems and legislatures across the South. He argued his first Supreme Court case in 1968.
ABOUT DEBORAH KENNEDY KENNARD:
Deborah Kennedy Kennard is a graduate of Yale Law School and received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Duke University, magna cum laude. She is a former managing counsel for Mobil Oil Corporation (now Exxon Mobil Corporation). In that position, she supervised lawyers located in the U.S., London and Singapore who handled legal matters related to the global supply, trading and transportation operations of the company and its affiliates.
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