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Informationen zum Autor Shelia P. Moses is a poet, award-winning author, playwright, and producer. She has written several books for young readers, including The Legend of Buddy Bush ; I, Dred Scott: A Fictional Slave Narrative Based on the Life and Legal Precedent of Dred Scott; The Baptism; and Who Is Stacey Abrams? She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Klappentext "Discover how a young girl who was the star of her school's debate team became a federal jurist and the first Black woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court. Born in Washington, DC, in 1970, and raised in Miami, Florida, Ketanji Brown Jackson developed an interest in law and politics at an early age. As a preschooler, she sat with her father and watched him complete his law school assignments. And even though some people, including a school guidance counselor, discouraged Ketanji from aiming high, she proved them wrong and graduated with honors from Harvard Law School. She went on to serve on the U.S. District Court in 2013 and the United States Court of Appeals in 2021 before making history and becoming the first Black woman to be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court in 2022."--Publisher marketing. Leseprobe Who Is Ketanji Brown Jackson? April 7, 2022, was no ordinary day for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. She was in the White House, on her way to meet with the president of the United States, to learn if she would become a Supreme Court justice. The Supreme Court is the highest court in America. It decides whether new laws agree with the United States Constitution, which is the most important set of rules in the country. The Supreme Court’s decisions affect the lives of millions of people. In the more than two hundred years since the Supreme Court was established, most of the justices had been white men. And only two Black men had been appointed justices. As Ketanji walked through the halls, she hoped she would become the first Black woman to take on this important position. Inside the Roosevelt Room, Ketanji and President Joe Biden stood next to each other as they watched Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman and first Black person to serve in the role, on the television screen. She was leading the confirmation hearings at the United States Capitol building and was almost finished reading the votes that would decide Ketanji’s future. After going through the votes, Vice President Harris said, “On this vote, the yeas are fifty--three, the nays are forty--seven. And this nomination is confirmed.” In that moment, history was made! Back in the Roosevelt Room, Ketanji and President Biden turned and hugged each other. There was no audio recording of what they said in that room, but a picture that was shared on social media showed how proud and excited Ketanji was. Ketanji’s dreams of becoming a judge one day had brought her to the highest court in the land. After her swearing-in ceremony, which would take place in a few months, she would officially become Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Chapter 1: Sunshine State Ketanji Onyika Brown was born on September 14, 1970, in Washington, DC. Her name was suggested to her parents by her aunt, who was living in West Africa. Ketanji means “lovely one” in the Swahili language. Ketanji’s parents, Johnny and Ellery, who were both raised in Miami, Florida, wanted to become educators, so they moved to Washington, DC, in the late 1960s to attend college. Like many cities in the United States at the time, Washington, DC, was the site of a large number of protests held by Black people fighting for equality. Black people were being treated terribly by many white people simply because of the color of their skin. There were laws in place that made sure Black and white people were segregated (separated). The protests increased across the country after Dr. Martin Luther K...
