Thurgood

Thurgood Marshall was the first Black justice on the Supreme Court and an important figure in the civil rights movement, but this picture book biography goes way back to the beginning when he convinced his parents to legally change his name—at age six. Then, at fifteen, Marshall was assaulted by a white man when he accidentally bumped into a white woman while delivering some boxes for work. He punched the man in self defense and ended up in jail. Fueled by his innate and experiential drive for justice, Marshall would go on to become the star of his high school and college debate teams, a stellar law student at Howard University, and, as a lawyer, he argued and won many Supreme Court cases including the historic Brown vs. Board of Eduction. A Washington Post Book of the Year. From award-winning author and illustrator, Jonah Winter and Bryan Collier. 

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