Summary Of My Grandfather's Son By Clarence Thomas

He was a poor child who was born into poverty, abandoned by his biological father and raised in the South during the time of the being- effective Jim Crow Law, he used to be as an angry man, a product of racism; but he is also an example of a hero who overcame many obstacles in this harsh life to achieve the American Dream. He is Associate Justice of the U.S Supreme Court- Clarence Thomas. Via 289 pages of the book My Grandfather’s Son: A Memoir, which was written by himself, he tells stories about his life, detailing from his childhood until becoming a justice on the U.S Supreme Court bench, with the hope that “ young people who read it will find something in it they can identify with and learn from” (Thomas).
In the early parts of My Grandfather’s Son, Thomas recalled his memories of his deprived childhood. His early memories were full of always being cold, hungry in Pinpoint, Georgia. Then he was sent to Savannah, Georgia to live with his no nonsense grandparent who raised him, influenced him and made what he is
Afterward, he drop out seminary because of the civil rights era, this decision drove him away from Daddy who couldn’t understand why this young man gave up a noble calling. Daddy kicked Thomas out of the house with the final word that burned his heart and distanced their relationship “You’ll have to figure it out yourself. You’ll probably end up like your no-good daddy or those other no-good Pinpoint Negroes”. Thomas fought for himself at College of the Holly Cross in the North where he experienced and took part in several protests, and he continued his race on Yale Law School where he ended up with fully of bitter toward the unjust treatment of blacks by the white bigots. In much of his life he struggled with drinking problem,