Bibliograph

Thurgood Marshall, American revolutionary, Juan Williams

Type

Label

Thurgood Marshall, American revolutionary, Juan Williams

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-436) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Thurgood Marshall

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Juan Williams

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 5.3, 1, 59281

Sub title

American revolutionary

Summary

Presents a biography of the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court, from his crusade against segregation to his friendships with other famous Black figures

Table Of Contents

Right time, right man? -- A fighting family -- Educating Thurgood -- Waking up -- Turkey -- His own man -- Getting started -- Leaving home -- 69 Fifth Avenue -- Marshall in charge -- Pan of bones -- The war years -- Lynch mob for a lawyer -- Jim Crow Buster -- Groveland -- Lessons in politics -- On the front line -- Direct attack -- Number one Negro of all time -- Planning a revolt -- Case of the century -- No radical -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Machiavellian Marshall -- The second Civil War -- Marshall and the militants -- Exit time -- Black robes -- Johnson's man -- Justice Marshall -- Backlash on the court -- Hangin' on -- Resurrection

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