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3) Thurgood
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the first black justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Thurgood Marshall was a descendant of slaves who became the first African American Supreme Court justice. As readers explore the main events of his inspiring life, they discover his involvement in some of the most important moments in the fight for civil rights. Essential biographical and historical information is presented through accessible text, including detailed sidebars. Photographs and graphic organizers help readers visualize the people,...
6) Marshall
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career defining cases.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"The author of The Butler presents a revelatory biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice--one of the giants of the civil rights movement, and one of the most transforming Supreme Court justices of the 20th century,"--Novelist.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
A picture book portrait of the first Black justice on the Supreme Court, presented by two Coretta Scott King Honor winners, includes coverage of Thurgood Marshall's upbringing in segregated Baltimore, achievements with the NAACP and contributions to landmark equality rulings.
9) Thurgood
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
The remarkable celebration of the life and legacy of civil rights advocate and Supreme Court pioneer Thurgood Marshall, the first African American appointed to the nation's highest judicial bench. Filmed before a live audience at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater, this compelling one-man play written by Peabody Award and Emmy Award winner George Stevens, Jr. and directed by Emmy Award winner Michael Stevens stars the Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming with cheap Jim Crow labor. When a white seventeen-year-old Groveland girl cried rape, vicious Sheriff McCall was fast on the trail of four young blacks who dared to envision a future for themselves. Then the Ku Klux Klan rolled into town, burning homes and chasing hundreds of blacks into the swamps. So began the chain of events that would bring Thurgood Marshall, the man known as "Mr. Civil Rights," into...
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