Clarence Thomas is the associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America who was born in 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia, a small, predominantly black community near Savannah founded by freedmen after the Civil War.
He was the second of three children brought into the world to M. C. Thomas, a farmworker, and Leola “Pigeon” Williams, a homegrown specialist.
They were relatives of American slaves, and the family spoke Gullah as a first language.
Thomas’ earliest realized precursors were slaves named Sandy and Peggy, who were born in the late eighteenth century and possessed by affluent grower Josiah Wilson of Liberty County, Georgia.
Thomas’ dad left the family when Thomas was two years of age.
However Thomas’ mom really buckled down, she was at times paid just pennies each day and attempted to bring insufficient cash to take care of the family and was now and again compelled to depend on the cause.
After a house fire left them destitute, Thomas and his more youthful sibling Myers were taken to reside in Savannah with his maternal grandparents, Myers and Christine (née Hargrove) Anderson.
Clarence Thomas Nominations: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work
Clarence Thomas was nominated for the 53rd NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work.
