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1) Marshall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career defining cases.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A close examination of Thurgood Marshall's earlier formative years in Maryland when his personality, attitudes, priorities, and work habits had crystallized.
"If black students got pressure from home, their teachers kept up the intensity. Gibson explains that Baltimore's black schools were stocked with dedicated teachers. "Employment options for educated blacks outside the teaching profession were limited," he says, and the academic credentials of...
4) Thurgood
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr., before the civil rights movement there was Thurgood, fighting for African Americans - and winning. Here is the powerful story of the trailblazer who proved that separate is not equal." --
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall's triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America's public schools completed the final leg of an heroic journey to end legal segregation. For 20 years, during wartime and the Depression, Marshall had traveled hundreds of thousands of miles through the Jim Crow South of the United States, fighting segregation case by case, establishing precedent after precedent, all...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Thurgood Marshall was a descendant of slaves who became the first African American Supreme Court justice. As readers explore the main events of his inspiring life, they discover his involvement in some of the most important moments in the fight for civil rights. Essential biographical and historical information is presented through accessible text, including detailed sidebars. Photographs and graphic organizers help readers visualize the people,...
Series
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
21 bridges: An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the night unfolds, lines become blurred on whom he is pursuing, and who is in pursuit of him. When the search intensifies, extreme measures are taken to prevent the killers from escaping Manhattan as the authorities close all of the city's bridges to prevent any entry or exit from the iconic island.
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