Juan Williams To Discuss New Book On Thurgood Marshall At Silver Spring, Aspen Hill Libraries

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Contact: Betty Valdes, 301-217-3139
For Immediate Release: February 2, 1999

JUAN WILLIAMS TO DISCUSS
NEW BOOK ON THURGOOD MARSHALL
AT SILVER SPRING, ASPEN HILL LIBRARIES

Juan Williams, Washington Post political and national correspondent, and best-selling author of Eyes on the Prize, will discuss his latest book, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, at the Silver Spring Community Library, on March 8 and at the Aspen Hill Community Library on March 9, at 7:30 p.m.

Williams' story recounts how Marshall - a descendant of slaves who became the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court - fulfilled the promise of democracy and changed our country's history. Some of Marshall's accomplishments were: winning 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court, leading the NAAACP to victory in Brown v. Board of Education, and battling segregationists in Little Rock to integrate Central High School. He changed politics from a whites-only democracy with his victory in Smith v. Allwright which ended all-white primaries in Texas in 1944, won the fight for blacks to travel as equals with whites on interstate transportation in Morgan v. Virginia, and ended the use of racially restrictive contract to keep blacks and Jews out of white neighborhoods in Shelley v. Kraemer.

Following the discussion, Williams will answer questions and sign copies of his newest work. The programs are part of the "Meet the Author" series sponsored by the Silver Spring and Aspen Hill Friends of the Library.

The Silver Spring Library is located at 8901 Colesville Road, and the Aspen Hill Library is at 4407 Aspen Hill Road.

For more information, contact the Silver Spring Library at 301-565-7689 or the Aspen Hill Library at 301-871-2094.

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