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After meeting Thurgood Marshall in 1975, Gibson began collecting information on him, which led to the publication of his 2012 book, Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice. [7] [8] He is currently working on his second book on Marshall which will chronicle Marshall's first career from 1935 to 1955 [7] [2]
Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991.
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America is a 2012 nonfiction book by the American author Gilbert King.It is a history of the attorney Thurgood Marshall's defense of four young black men in Lake County, Florida, who were accused in 1949 of raping a white woman.
The young man's voice boomed over thousands of students, donors and celebrities who gathered in the Sheraton Hotel in New Celebrities Celebrate Young Black Scholars At The Thurgood Marshall Awards ...
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall called Murray's 1950 book States' Laws on Race and Color, the "bible" of the civil rights movement. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Murray was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to serve on the 1961–1963 Presidential Commission on the Status of Women . [ 7 ]
Marshall left the court 30 years ago. So it’s high time for there to be a statue of Thurgood Marshall commemorating his great achievement,” Raff Donelson, a law professor at Chicago-Kent ...
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Gilbert King (born February 22, 1962) is an American writer and photographer, known best as the author of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (2012), which won the Pulitzer Prize. [1]