To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a women's place was in the home. Regardless, she went to Cornell University, where males outnumbered females four to one. There, she met her husband, Martin Ginsburg, and found her calling as a lawyer. Despite discrimination against Jews, females, and working mothers, Ginsburg went on to become Columbia Law School's first tenured female professor, a judge for the US Court of Appeals, and finally, a Supreme Court Justice. Structured as a court case in which the reader is presented with evidence of the injustice that Ginsburg faced, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the true story of how the one of America's most "notorious" women bravely persevered to become the remarkable symbol of justice she is today.

 

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Abrams .

Jonah Winter is the author of more than 30 nonfiction picture books, including Barack and Sonia Sotomayor. He divides his time between Santa Fe and a small town in Pennsylvania. Stacy Innerst is an illustrator who received many awards for his work. Jonah Winter is the author of Barack , Dizzy , Diego , and Atheneum's own Sonia Sotomayor , and Roberto Clemente , to name a few. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.