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Thurgood
by Jonah Winter
Illustrator: Bryan Collier
Ages: 6+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books/Random House/PRH
ISBN: 978-1-5247-6533-0
Keywords: Picture Book for Older Readers, Civil Rights, Diversity, African Anercans, Discrimination
Born in segregated Baltimore, Thurgood Marshall spent his life fighting discrimination and became the first African-American Supreme Court justice. Dramatic collage and watercolor illustrations.