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"It's RBG like you've never seen her before! Using a mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an American trailblazer. The first book in an exciting new nonfiction series, You Area Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg focuses on Ruth's lifelong mission to bring equality and justice to all. Sarah Green's spot-on comic illustrations bring this icon to life, and engaging backmatter instructs...
5) Thurgood
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Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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"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." --Provided by Publisher.
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
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Thurgood Marshall's determination to make all Americans equal under the law led him to the Supreme Court. But to get to the highest court in the land, Thurgood had to make space for himself every step of the way. Kekla Magoon and Laura Freeman tell the incredible story of the first Black Supreme Court justice.
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Disney HYPERION
Pub. Date
2020.
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48 pages cm
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A portrait of the trailblazing Supreme Court Justice describes the prejudices that challenged her pursuit of an education and a career in law, her achievements as the second woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court and her important contributions to high-profile cases.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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A biography of the first Puerto Rican--and third woman--Supreme Court justice emphasizes how she overcame a childhood of poverty in the South Bronx through her own and her mother's hard work and determination.
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Viking
Pub. Date
c2008
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248 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's his life leading up to that point--from school troublemaker to passionate lawyer--that makes him both accessibly real and a role model to Americans of every color.
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Making of America (Abrams) volume 6
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
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249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"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....
11) William H. Taft
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Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2012
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112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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"Provides comprehensive information on President William H. Taft and places him within his historical and cultural context. Also explored are the formative events of his times and how he responded"--Provided by publisher.
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