THURGOOD MARSHALL: Champion of Civil Rights ...

THURGOOD MARSHALL: Champion of Civil Rights by Elisabeth Krug (Fawcett: $4; 147 pp; illustrated; paperback original). The great-grandson of a slave, the late Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history. Krug’s juvenile biography traces Marshall’s career as the civil rights attorney who argued the series of cases for the NAACP that culminated in Brown vs. Board of Education, the 1954 decision that lead to the desegregation of American schools. This straightforward account of the life of an exceptional man can help teen-agers of all races understand the importance of President Clinton’s impending nomination of a successor to Justice Byron White.