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Thurgood Marshall : a life in American history / Spencer R. Crew.

Author/creator Crew, Spencer R., 1949- author.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2019]
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental Content EBSCOhost
Subject(s)
Series Black history lives
Black history lives. ^A1421990
Contents Chapter 1. Early influences -- chapter 2. Thurgood Marshall becomes a social engineer -- chapter 3. At the NAACP -- chapter 4. The Truman years -- chapter 5. The bridge to Brown -- chapter 6. The cases that ended legislative school segregation -- chapter 7. A time of turmoil -- chapter 8. Transition to federal life -- chapter 9. Solicitor general -- chapter 10. New to the court -- chapter 11. The loyal opposition.
Abstract "This compelling new biography introduces the reader the constant battles for equality faced by African Americans through a study of the career of Thurgood Marshall, who believed in the power of the law to change a society."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed on October 15, 2021).
Issued in other formPrint version: Crew, Spencer R., 1949- Thurgood Marshall. Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2019] 9781440861444
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formBiographies.
LCCN 2019021763
ISBN1440861455 electronic book
ISBN9781440861451 (electronic bk.)
ISBNprint alkaline paper

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