Young Thurgood

Like the movie Marshall, this book—theonly biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall's immediate family—focuses on his early civil rights struggles andsuccesses beforeBrown v. Board of Education.Thurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century. He transformed the nation's legal landscape by challenging the racial segregation that had relegated millions to second-class citizenship. He won twenty-nine of thirty-three cases before the United States S