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Thurgood
By Jonah Winter. 2019
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"Fact: Thurgood Marshall was a born lawyer, always arguing. Fact: Thurgood Marshall grew up to become the first Black justice…
on the Supreme Court. Fact: Thurgood Marshall revolutionized America. 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." -- Dust jacketFighting for yes!: the story of disability rights activist Judith Heumann
By Maryann Cocca-Leffler. 2022
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Laws and statutes, Biography, Disabilities, Social issues, Women biography
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"In the 1970s an important disability rights law--Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973--was waiting to be signed. Judy…
[Heumann] and other disability rights activists fought for YES! They held a sit-in until Section 504 was signed into law. Section 504--established thanks in large part to the ongoing work of Judy and her community--laid the foundation for the Americans with Disabilities Act." -- Provided by publisher
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This is an account of women's attempts to become practicing lawyers, gain entrance to law schools, and to obtain the…
same legal rights as men, such as the right to hold property, etc. This book begins with the American Revolutionary war when women had few legal rights at all and extends to the appointment of the first women to the Supreme Court bench.