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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.

"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. "--.

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.

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.

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

After the funeral of his powerful father, Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out the arrangements his father left behind.

Presents a biographical look at attorney, judge, and civil rights leader Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

Presents a biographical look at attorney, judge, and civil rights leader Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to serve on the United States Supreme Court.