Thurgood Marshall (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Lewis H. Fenderson
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: 1922–1967
- Setting: Baltimore, Maryland; Oxford, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C.; New York, New York; Oklahoma; and Texas
- Principal Characters: Thurgood Marshall, Vivien, Charles Houston, William H. Hastie, Donald Murray, W. D. Lyons, Stanley Belden, Cecilia, G. W. McLaurin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Justice, Segregation or integration, Social action, Social reform, Lawyers, Judges, Biography, Courts or courtrooms
- Locales: New York, NY, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Baltimore, MD, Oklahoma, Texas
Form and Content
The title Thurgood Marshall: Fighter for Justice accurately describes the tone that Lewis Fenderson uses throughout this fictionalized biography. From the opening scene, in which Marshall gets into a fight with a white man who called him “nigguh,” to his conflicts with Southern senators who objected to his nomination to the Supreme Court, the author portrays a fighter for constitutional rights.
The sixteen short chapters, five to ten pages each, include considerable dialogue, as well as the conclusions that the author has made about the...
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