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Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on historical documents and exclusive interviews, authors tell the inspiring story of Clarence Thomas's rise from a childhood of poverty and prejudice in the segregated South to Supreme Court Justice. Companion to blockbuster documentary Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, but a fascinating stand alone read, as well! *The full story behind the wildly successful documentary film, Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words*...
4) Marshall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career defining cases.
5) Marshall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career defining cases.
Author
Series
Making of America (Abrams) volume 6
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was a US Supreme Court Justice and important civil rights activist. Born in Baltimore, Marshall faced racial segregation at school, but he worked his way up and earned his law degree from Howard University, where he met Charles Hamilton Houston. He followed Houston to New York to serve the NAACP and argued cases as an attorney. He argued more than thirty-two cases before the Supreme Court-more than anyone else in history....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics -- and their impact on people of color -- are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Uses the contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm his appointment as the first African American justice on the Supreme Court as the framework to trace the life and career of one of the giants of the civil rights movement.
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