An introduction to the life and accomplishments of the African American civil rights attorney who became a prominent Supreme Court Justice.

Product Description: Thurgood Marshall changed American history by challenging it. In the first half of the twentieth century, African Americans were often treated as second-class citizens and subject to Jim Crow laws, which promoted both racism and segregation...read more

An introduction to the life and accomplishments of the African American civil rights attorney who became a prominent Supreme Court justice.

Narrates the life of the first African-American to serve as a judge on the United States Supreme Court.

Ten biographies of African American lawyers, including Charles Hamilton Houston, William Henry Hastie, Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, Benjamin Lawson Hooks, L. Douglas Wilder, Barbara Jordan, Johnnie Cochran, Marian Wright Edelman, and Carol Moseley-Braun.Ten biographies of African American lawyers, including Charles Hamilton Houston, William Henry Hastie, Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, Johnnie Cochran, Marian Wright Edelman, and Carol Moseley-Braun.

Follows the life of the first African-American to serve as a judge on the United States Supreme Court