Introduction : the problem of race and representation -- The idea of the representative Negro -- Racial identity and the marketplace for lawyers -- The role of the courtroom in an era of segregation -- A shifting racial identity in a southern courtroom -- Young Thurgood Marshall joins the brotherhood of the bar -- A woman in a fraternity of lawyers -- Things fall apart -- The strange journey of Loren Miller -- The trials of Pauli Murray -- A lawyer as the face of integration in postwar America -- Conclusion : race and representation in a new century.