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Available
Publication
Penguin Young Readers Group (2019), 112 pages
Description
"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is famous for her stylish collars (called jabots) and her commanding dissents. This opera-loving New Yorker has always spoken her mind; as a young lawyer, RBG advocated for gender equality and women's rights when few others did. She gained attention for the cases she won when arguing in front of the Supreme Court, before taking her place on the bench in 1993. Author Patricia Brennan Demuth answers all the question about what makes RBG so notorious and irreplaceable"--
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the daughter of Jewish immigrants. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York. When she was two years old, her sister, who was six died, leaving her an only child. She excelled at school and was later only one of nine women in the Harvard Law School. In her class there were more than
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500 men. She graduated and began practicing law. As time went on, she was arguing cases before the Supreme Court. She first argued cases where it was men and families as a whole who were being hurt by gender inequality. She went on to teach law at Columbia University. Eventually she became only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
112 p.; 7.69 inches
ISBN
1524793531 / 9781524793531