Thurgood Marshall turned a law school rejection based on his race into a passion for ending our nation s policy of separate but equal. He was on the legal team that won the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case and used that victory as a precedent to topple other racial barriers. He furthered racial reforms after being named our nation s first black Supreme Court justice. Bibliography, Black-and-White Photographs, Full-Color Photographs,...

"On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States delivered a unanimous ruling that declared racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, because separate could never be equal. Now readers can step back in time to learn about what led up to this . . . milestone in the Civil Rights movement, how the landmark case unfolded, and the ways in which one . . . day changed America forever"--Provided by publisher.

"In this . . . examination of the path to Brown v. Board of Education, Constitutional law scholar Lawrence Goldstone highlights the key trials and players in the fight for integration"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the court cases involved in the litigation of education in separate schools that affected the outcome of Brown v. the Board of Education.