The Poetic Justice
Thomas, John Charles![The Poetic Justice](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/446/44661620/CHSBZCOP0344661620.jpg)
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 Norfolk.
Thomas takes us from his difficult beginnings t...