Thurgood Marshall

✍ Scribed by Chris Crowe

Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Series: Up Close
Category: Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Thurgood Marshall changed American history by challenging it. In the first half of the twentieth century, African Americans were often treated as second-class citizens and subject to Jim Crow laws, which promoted both racism and segregation. This is the world that Marshall grew up in, and he became a lawyer to change it. As the head counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), he helped take the famous Brown v. Board of Education all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. And in an outcome surprising even to him, the court unanimously ruled to end segregation in schools. Thurgood Marshall had become a hero.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Thurgood Marshall

📁 Thurgood Marshall

✍ Spencer R. Crew 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 ABC-CLIO 🌐 English

<p>As a lawyer, Thurgood Marshall played an incredible role in ending legal segregation in the United States. For thirty years he traveled across the country for the NAACP, trying cases and encouraging African Americans to fight against discrimination. His successes made him a highly respected lawye

📁 Thurgood Marshall

✍ Frost, Helen, 1949- 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Mankato, Minn. : Pebble Books 🌐 English

24 pages : 19 cm

📁 Thurgood Marshall

✍ Christine Taylor-Butler 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 Children's Press 🌐 English

📁 Thurgood Marshall

✍ Taylor-Butler, Christine 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 New York : Children's Press 🌐 English

Learn about the life of the famous African American judge

Thurgood Marshall: American revolutionar

📁 Thurgood Marshall: American revolutionary

✍ Juan Williams 📂 Library 📅 2000 🏛 Times Books 🌐 English

This New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1998, is now in trade paper. From the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize, here is the definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice.

Thurgood Marshall: A Biography

📁 Thurgood Marshall: A Biography

✍ Glenn L. Starks; F. Erik Brooks 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 ABC-CLIO 🌐 English

<p>Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court Justice. As a lawyer, he won the Supreme Court Case <i>Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka</i> that integrated all public schools in the United States. But Marshall's contributions extend far beyond significantly advancing the civil