Thurgood Marshall–the first black justice on the Supreme Court
and a giant of the civil rights movement–jumps to life in this
inspiring picture-book biography from an award-winning author and
six-time Coretta Scott King, four-time Caldecott Honor-winning
illustrator.
Thurgood Marshall was a born lawyer–the loudest talker, funniest
joke teller, and best arguer from the time he was a kid growing up in
Baltimore in the early 1900s. He would go on to become the star of
his high school and college debate teams, a stellar law student at
Howard University, and, as a lawyer, a one-man weapon against the
discriminatory laws against black Americans. After only two years at
the NAACP, he was their top lawyer and had earned himself the
nickname Mr. Civil Rights. He argued–and won–cases before the
Supreme Court, including one of the most important cases in American
history: Brown v Board of Education. And he became the first black
U.S. Supreme Court Justice in history.
Like its subject,
here is a biography that crackles with energy and intensity–a great
introduction to a great man.