Thurgood Marshall: The First African-American Supreme Court Justice
- ISBN-10
- 1502619334
- ISBN-13
- 9781502619334
- Series
- Thurgood Marshall
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-07-15
- Publisher
- Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
- Author
- Rebecca Carey Rohan
Description
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.
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