Thurgood Marshall: A Biography

✍ Scribed by Glenn L. Starks; F. Erik Brooks

Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Series: Greenwood Biographies
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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

Thurgood Marshall: A Biography discusses the life of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in a chronological fashion, and then discusses his legacy after death. Students at all grade levels—including undergraduate and graduate college students—as well as historians and general readers interested in African American history , civil rights, or the U.S. legal system will find this book insightful and useful.

✦ Subjects

Biography & Autobiography; Nonfiction; BIO020000

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