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Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Thurgood Marshall was an important pioneer in the civil rights movement both for his work as the lawyer who helped overturn school segregation and as the first African American on the Supreme Court. In this book, readers explore Marshall's life through his historical accomplishments which are enhanced by photographs, insightful facts, and a helpful timeline. Marshall never let "separate but equal" stop him, and this book inspires readers to stand...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
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Description
In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming with cheap Jim Crow labor. When a white seventeen-year-old Groveland girl cried rape, vicious Sheriff McCall was fast on the trail of four young blacks who dared to envision a future for themselves. Then the Ku Klux Klan rolled into town, burning homes and chasing hundreds of blacks into the swamps. So began the chain of events that would bring Thurgood Marshall, the man known as "Mr. Civil Rights," into...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's his life leading up to that point--from school troublemaker to passionate lawyer--that makes him both accessibly real and a role model to Americans of every color.
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Thurgood Marshall stands today as the great architect of American race relations, having expanded the foundation of individual rights for all Americans. His victory in the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the landmark Supreme Court case outlawing school segregation, would have made him a historic figure even if he had not gone on to become the first African-American appointed to the Supreme Court. Remembered as a gruff, aloof figure,...
9) Thurgood
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the life of the first black justice on the Supreme Court, from his childhood in Baltimore and his education at Howard University to his work with the NAACP and his activism during the Civil Rights movement.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Thurgood Marshall's determination to make all Americans equal under the law led him to the Supreme Court. But to get to the highest court in the land, Thurgood had to make space for himself every step of the way. Kekla Magoon and Laura Freeman tell the incredible story of the first Black Supreme Court justice.
16) Marshall
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career defining cases.
19) Thurgood
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The remarkable celebration of the life and legacy of civil rights advocate and Supreme Court pioneer Thurgood Marshall, the first African American appointed to the nation's highest judicial bench. Filmed before a live audience at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater, this compelling one-man play written by Peabody Award and Emmy Award winner George Stevens, Jr. and directed by Emmy Award winner Michael Stevens stars the Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning...
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