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Kanefield, Teri,
1960-
Thurgood Marshall.
Thurgood Marshall
[BOOK] :
The Making of America /
Teri Kanefield.
Thurgood Marshall.
New York :
Abrams Books for Young Readers,
2020.
249 pages :
illustrations ;
22 cm.
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Making of America
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-243) and index.
Prologue: a public enemy -- Way up South -- College days -- Top man in the class -- The equalization strategy -- A social engineer -- Speaking out -- Mr. Civil Rights -- Brown v. Board of Education -- Massive resistance -- Judge Marshall -- A more perfect union -- Legacy.
Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was a US Supreme Court Justice and important civil rights activist. Born in Baltimore, Marshall faced racial segregation at school, but he worked his way up and earned his law degree from Howard University, where he met Charles Hamilton Houston. He followed Houston to New York to serve the NAACP and argued cases as an attorney. He argued more than thirty-two cases before the Supreme Court-more than anyone else in history. And eventually, he argued against laws that justified Jim Crow segregation - and won. He became the first African American man to serve on the Supreme Court, and he served from 1967-1991.
Provided by publisher.
20210518.
Marshall, Thurgood
1908-1993
Juvenile literature.
United States
Supreme Court
Biography
Juvenile literature.
Judges
United States
Biography
Juvenile literature.
African American judges
Biography
Juvenile literature.
Making of America.