Who is Hugo Black from The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court and what is their importance?

Black was an eighty-one-year-old Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He had graduated from the University of Alabama Law School, with his previous education consisting of reading the Great books. In 1926, he was elected to the Senate and became a Roosevelt protégé, and in 1937, Roosevelt appointed him to the Supreme Court. He resigned in 1971 and died less than two weeks after his resignation.