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Ketanji Brown Jackson

Supreme Court Justice
2023
Ketanji Brown Jackson has always had a passion for helping others in and out of the courtroom. She made her way from fighting for defendants without the means to fight for themselves to sitting behind the bench. Find out how Ketanji became the first Black woman on the United States Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall

2019
A biography of African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall.

Thurgood Marshall

A brief biography of Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights lawyer who became the first African American justice on the United States Supreme Court, that discusses his early life, challenges he faced, and his major accomplishments.

Thurgood Marshall

a life in American history
2019
Introduces the reader to the constant battles for equality faced by African Americans through a study of the career of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

The highest tribute

Thurgood Marshall's life, leadership, and legacy / written by Kekla Magoon ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
2021
Profiles the life and achievements of Supreme Court Justice and civil rights leader Thurgood Marshall. Includes a time line, summaries of major court cases, and resources.

Thurgood Marshall

Presents the story of the lawyer who successfully argued the case that ended legal racial segregation in America, describing what segregated life was like, Marshall's own slave ancestry and his effective "We the people" strategy.

Thurgood

"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"--Provided by the publisher.
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Thurgood Marshall

A brief overview of the life of Thurgood Marshall and his work as a civil rights leader.

Locking up our own

crime and punishment in black America
"An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics--and their impact on people of color--are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime. As Forman shows, the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office around the country amid a surge in crime. Many came to believe that tough measures--such as stringent drug and gun laws and "pretext traffic stops" in poor African American neighborhoods--were needed to secure a stable future for black communities. Some politicians and activists saw criminals as a "cancer" that had to be cut away from the rest of black America. Others supported harsh measures more reluctantly, believing they had no other choice in the face of a public safety emergency. Drawing on his experience as a public defender and focusing on Washington, D.C., Forman writes with compassion for individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas--from the young men and women he defended to officials struggling to cope with an impossible situation. The result is an original view of our justice system as well as a moving portrait of the human beings caught in its coils."--.
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Thurgood

2019
A picture book biography of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall that describes his life and career and covers the court cases he argued and won that proved that separate is not equal.
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