Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1994. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. xviii 2 304 2 pages. Frontis illustration. Footnotes. Thurgood Marshall July 2 1908 - January 24 1993 was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Before becoming a judge Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education a 1954 decision that ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. He served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit after being appointed by President John F. Kennedy. He was appointed as the Solicitor General by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. President Johnson nominated him to the United States Supreme Court in 1967 and he was approved by the Senate. In 2006 Thurgood a one-man play written by George Stevens Jr. premiered at the Westport Country Playhouse starring James Earl Jones and directed by Leonard Foglia. Later it opened Broadway at the Booth Theatre on April 30 2008 starring Laurence Fishburne. On February 24 2011 HBO screened a filmed version of the play which Fishburne performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The production was described by the Baltimore Sun as "one of the most frank informed and searing discussions of race you will ever see on TV.". "His was the eye of a lawyer who saw the deepest wounds in the social fabric and used law to help heal them. His was the mouth of a man who knew the anguish of the silenced and gave them a voice."--Sandra Day O'Connor. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington DC: US Government Printing Office 1943. Poster. 36 x 43 cm. Full Color Folded Poster Very Good. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1943. unknown
WashingtonD.C.: United States Government Printing Office 1951. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1268pgs. Green Cloth gilt lettering on spine. light wear to the top edge otherwise fine unmarked copy. this is Volume X"the High Command Case"U.S. Vs. Von Lieb. Size: Stout Octavo. United States Government Printing Office Hardcover