Hugo Black was perhaps the "most remarkable Supreme Court justice of the 20th century" and America's most controversial. In Birmingham in the 1920s, he became a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Decades later, as a son of the South, he was one of America's staunchest judicial champions of free speech, civil liberties, and civil rights.

Now, Steve Suitts has written the latest, definitive book showing how Black's Alabama origins and early influences shaped the great champion of the Constitution. Over 25 years in the making, the book offers fresh, dramatic insights into Justice Black's consistent character, philosophy, and ethics. It chronicles his struggles with family tragedies, profound racism, bi-racial poverty, and Alabama-style conflicts over American ideals of justice.

This site offers book passages, extensive photo albums, audio clips, original documents, and much more on the life and times of Hugo Black of Alabama.

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