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October 6, 2017. In "Marshall," a new movie starring Chadwick Boseman and Josh Gad, the future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall argues a case for a black man accused of rape. Open...
About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases. 7,063 IMDb 7.3 1 h 58 min 2017. X-Ray 18+. Drama · Suspense · Cerebral · Emotional. Available to rent or buy.
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In 1951, Oliver Brown tried to enroll his seven-year-old daughter Linda in the closest elementary school to their Topeka, Kansas home. He was unsuccessful. Why? That elementary school was for white children only, and Linda was Black. More than fifty years prior, in 1896, the Supreme Court had established the doctrine of “separate but equal” in Ples...
The families filed a class-action lawsuit arguing that the Black schools were not equal to the white schools and that school segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal treatment under the law. Their case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, reached the Supreme Court in 1954. The families were r...
Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a lawyer with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, the first African American Supreme Court justice, and one of the most prominent figures of the American civil rights movement. Marshall was a tireless advocate for individual and civil rights. Thr...
Marshall was exposed to both legal work and legalized segregation from a young age. When he was a child, his father brought him and his brothers to the local courthouse and encouraged them to dissect and discuss the lawyers’ arguments. Years later, after graduating from Lincoln University with honors, Marshall applied to the University of Maryland’...
Marshall retired from the Court in 1991 and died of heart failure two years later, in January 1993. His legacy, however, is still felt today. His advocacy in Brown, as well as in several other civil rights cases, paved the way for the integration of schools and other public facilities. Though the enforcement of Brown was slow and many American scho...
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Thurgood Marshall speaks at the National Bar Association's Judicial Council after becoming the first African-American appointed to the Supreme Court.
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Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S. Marshall was a towering figure who became the nation's first Black United States Supreme Court Justice. He is best known for arguing the historic 1954 Brown v.
Oct 2, 2017 · October 2, 2017. Radio Special. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall Oral History. Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the nation’s first African American Supreme Court Associate Justice...
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