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Title: Thurgood Marshall
Condition: New
Author: Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks
Subtitle: A Biography
ISBN-10: 0313349169
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9780313349164
ISBN: 9780313349164
Release Date: 04/06/2012
Language: English
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Law & Politics, Biography
Description:

This book provides a detailed examination of the life and legal legacy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, including a discussion of the many legal cases in which he was involved.
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.

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