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Thurgood Marshall's Bill Of Rights For Kenya, Mary L. Dudziak

Mary L. Dudziak

In Thurgood Marshall’s office after his death, draped over an armchair in the morning sun, was a cloak made of monkey skin. The cloak was from Kenya, and was among the Justice’s most treasured possessions. For years, Marshall told his friends and his law clerks stories about Kenya. The cloak was a gift, he told them, from the time he was made an honorary tribal chief. But even those closest to Marshall knew little about the Kenya adventures he so keenly remembered. This short essay illuminates Marshall’s work on a Bill of Rights for Kenya in the early 1960s as …