marshall, thurgood

A biography of the civil rights advocate who was the first African-American to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

A personal profile of Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, discussing how the discrimination he faced as a child led to his decision to pursue a career in law, and looking at his work to win equal rights for African-Americans, most notably his leadership in "Brown versus the Board of Education.".

Traces the controversial life of Thugrood Marshall from his beginnings as an attorney for the NAACP to his appointment as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.

Presents the life of the first African-American appointed to the Supreme Court.

Examines the life of the first African-American to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

A biography of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to be appointed to the Supreme Court, discussing his work on behalf of civil rights, and his drive to change the country, and offering details of his private life.

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

A biography emphasizing the childhood of the man who became the first African-American to sit on the United States Supreme Court.

A biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice, who worked at making civil rights possible for all Americans.

Photographs and easy-to-read text trace the life of the first black man to be appointed an associate justice of the highest court in the country.