Thurgood Marshall American revolutionary

"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."
"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."@en
"From his influential effect on the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 to his 1967 appointment to the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall stands as one of the most influential leaders of the civil rights movement. Here Williams explores his life and politics, from his birth in Baltimore and his Depression-era legal practice in that city, to his work with NAACP and shepherding the legal fight to end to many Jim Crow laws."@en
"Williams offers readers a thorough, straightforward life of "the unlikely leading actor in creating social change in the United States in the twentieth century."--Publisher description."@en