Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Tony Freyer
  • Justice Hugo L. Black : a magnificent product of the South / Howard Ball
  • The Clay County origins of Mr. Justice Black : the populist as insider / Sheldon Hackney
  • Lister Hill, Hugo Black, and the albatross of race / Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
  • The early social and political philosophy of Hugo Black : liquor as a test case / Paul L. Murphy
  • Hugo LaFayette Black as United States Senator / David A. Shannon
  • Hugo Black and the golden age / J. Mills Thornton III
  • Ethical background of Hugo Black's career : thoughts prompted by the essays of Sheldon Hackney and Paul L. Murphy / Bertram Wyatt-Brown
  • Remarks on the occasion of the Justice Hugo L. Black centennial / William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Attorney General Meese vs. Chief Justice John Marshall and Justice Hugo L. Black / Arthur J. Goldberg
  • Justice Black and labor law : some reflections on the Justice's jurisprudence of individual versus collective rights in industrial relations / Harry T. Edwards.
  • Justice Black and the First Amendment / Anthony Lewis
  • Justice Black and the language of freedom / Irving Dilliard
  • Justice Hugo Black : craftsman of the law / Gerald T. Dunne
  • Justice Black : local control and federalism / Timothy G. O'Rourke, Abigail M. Thernstrom
  • Hugo Black enters his hundredth year : some heavenly reflections on the Constitution / Norman Redlich
  • Hugo LaFayette Black : a bibliography of the court years, 1937-1971 / Cherry Lynn Thomas, Jean McCulley Holcomb.