Biography: Thurgood Marshall – Fight for Equality

Fight for Equality – Thurgood Marshall

This Top Seller is a great bibliographic resource for February's Black History Month celebrated annually in the U.S. Your students will learn about former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (the first African American to serve in this capacity). Marshall fought for the equality of Black Americans and helped establish laws to desegregate schools. Now Black and White children would share the same facilities and, hopefully, reap the same educational advantages. Marshall was a well-educated civil rights lawyer who used his abilities to make a true difference for others. This reader will certainly be inspirational for your students as they think about how this text relates to themselves, others, and the world today.

This second-grade Level M reader introduces new vocabulary and sight words. Several relevant Social Studies concepts are covered in the non-fiction text. The Student Activities are an added bonus to review the vocabulary, sight words, and Social Studies concepts for second-grade level readers. The activities can be assigned for homework or completed in school individually, with other students, or in class.

History is approachable for your young students with this leveled biography. And it just might excite them enough to read more biographies!