The Poetic Justice: A Memoir - Hardcover

This inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black--and, at thirty-two years of age, the youngest--justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in the commonwealth's history. This high point was preceded, however, by a life that began in a home broken by poverty, alcoholism, and violence, and the segregated schools and neighborhoods of postwar...