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This is an exhaustively researched and insightful examination of the formative events in the life of Thurgood Marshall. Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was the grandson of a slave who became US Solicitor General in 1965. Born in Baltimore, he was educated at the historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania where his classmates included the author Langston Hughes and future President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, not to mention musician Cab Calloway. In 1930 he was denied admission to Maryland Law School because he was black. This was an event that was to both haunt him and direct his future professional life. Marshall's first court case came in 1933 when he successfully sued the University of Maryland over the admission of another black graduate - his beginnings of a profound sensitivity to injustice and support for the voiceless American, whatever his or her colour.

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A well-researched and engaging biography and a fine addition to Marshall scholarship. -- Kirkus Reviews <br> <br> Succeeds in making Marshall's story immediate and vital. -- Publishers Weekly <br><br> [A]n insightful portrait of a complex man. -- Booklist <br><br> The most accurate book ever published about my husband. <br>--Cecilia S. Marshall, Wife of Thurgood Marshall<br><br> A page-turner. Its compelling story is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand a great man and the history of the civil rights movement. I enthusiastically recommend this book. <br>--Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Professor of law, Harvard Law School, and author of The Presumption of Guilt <br><br> Gibson vividly recounts the remarkable journey that shaped one of the most influential icons of the twentieth century. <br>--Marc H. Morial, President and chief executive officer of the National Urban League<br><br> A triumph of discovery and restraint, Young Thurgood transports readers into a vivid, indomitable black culture that equipped this legal giant to remake our world. <br>--Taylor Branch, Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Cartel <br><br> I commend [this book] to every American who wishes to better understand our nation's ongoing struggle for universal civil rights. <br>--Elijah E. Cummings, US Congressperson from Maryland<br><br> A powerful account of Marshall's formative years and new insight into the early years of the NAACP. <br>--Benjamin Jealous, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Larry S. Gibson is a professor of law at the University of Maryland and a practicing lawyer.

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