marshall, thurgood

In graphic novel format, relates the story of Thurgood Marshall and his efforts as an attorney and as a Supreme Court Justice to bring an end to the segregationist policy of "separate but equal.".

A biography about Thurgood Marshall who was a lawyer, judge, and civil rights leader.

Presents a brief biography of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, remembered for protecting human rights.

Explores the impact Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, had on the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. Highlights those who supported and opposed his appointment.

Thurgood Marshall is best known for being the first African-American Supreme Court justice. However, he also was the lawyer who successfully overturned Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which desegregated public schools. Court cases that Marshall presided over are analyzed in this text with important historical and biographical information to help students understand this influential American figure.

Presents the case of a white seventeen-year-old Groveland, Florida, girl who cried rape against four young African American men and discusses how Thurgood Marshall became embroiled in the explosive and deadly case.

Presents a brief biography of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, remembered for protecting human rights.

Profiles famed civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall, whose successful arguing of the Brown v. Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court led to a landmark ruling overturning school segregation, and later became the nation's first black Supreme Court justice.

An illustrated look at the life of Thurgood Marshall, describing his family life, his education, his career as a lawyer and a Supreme Court Justice, and his civil rights activity.