Thurgood Marshall
Subtitle: a twentieth-century life
By: by Chris Crowe.
Series: Up close
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780670062287
Subjects: Marshall, Thurgood, -- 1908-1993 -- Juvenile literature.; Marshall, Thurgood, -- 1908-1993.; United States. -- Supreme Court -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; United States. -- Supreme Court -- Biography.; African American lawyers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; African American judges -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Afro-American lawyers -- Biography.; Afro-American judges -- Biography.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's his life leading up to that point--from school troublemaker to passionate lawyer--that makes him both accessibly real and a role model to Americans of every color.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-239) and index.

Ages 11 and up.

A Junior Library Guild selection
Table of contents: value: Black and white : a nation divided; value: A baby born into Jim Crow; value: Goody; value: Roots of resistance; value: Easing along; value: Digging deep into law; value: A hungry young lawyer; value: Taking Jim Crow to court; value: Laying it on the line; value: Taking down Jim Crow; value: The case of the century; value: Moving to the other side of the bench; value: A minority again; value: The legacy.