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Magoon, Kekla

The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall's Life, Leadership, and Legacy

40 pp. | HarperCollins/Quill Tree | January, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-291251-0 $17.99
(1) K-3 Illustrated by Laura Freeman. "Thurgood would become the first to do a lot of things that a Black person had never done before." When he attended Lincoln University, a Black college, Thurgood Marshall's debate team became the first to participate in an interracial debate. As a young lawyer in Baltimore, he won a court case admitting a Black student to the University of Maryland, the first time a court had ordered the desegregation of a school. And he won the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case before the Supreme Court in 1954 and became a Supreme Court justice himself in 1967. Magoon's title comes from Marshall himself: "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute." The crystal-clear and accessible text, focusing on essential cases in the career of "Mr. Civil Rights," does justice to the Justice. Freeman's stately digital illustrations employ effective graphic elements: newspaper headlines, "whites only" signs, bits of the Constitution, the scales of justice. The superb back matter includes a timeline, a list of major court cases, a bibliography, and an excellent selection of books for further reading.
Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2021

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