Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP

2014 • 56 នាទី

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From PBS - Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall’s triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America’s public schools completed the final leg of an heroic journey to end legal segregation. For 20 years, during wartime and the Depression, Marshall had traveled hundreds of thousands of miles through the Jim Crow South of the United States, fighting segregation case by case, establishing precedent after precedent, all leading up to one of the most important legal decisions in American history. Along the way, he escaped the gun of a Dallas sheriff, was pursued by the Ku Klux Klan on Long Island, hid in bushes from a violent mob in Detroit, and even survived his own lynching. In this impossible environment, Thurgood Marshall won more Supreme Court cases than any lawyer in American history, and set the stage for the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Marshall, who went on to become the first black Supreme Court justice in 1967, made the work of civil rights pioneers like the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks possible, by laying the groundwork to end legal segregation and changing the American legal landscape.

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I'm so sad this wasn't one of those Ken Burns's documentaries that take their time. I've seen, e.g., Burns's civil war doc. It was 11 hours long. We didn't get to know Thurgood Marshall. We never saw him in court. We don't know who nominated him for the Supreme Court. I gave it 4 stars for its effort and its subject, but I feel cheated, empty. It takes more than 88 minutes just to read his famous quotes! There wasn't one. Where did he fit in with Selma and MLK? Now I'm really confused and disappointed.

It's an uplifting story and I learned a lot from this documentary. I agree with the other commenter that this could have been at least a 3 or 4 part series which his life deserves. But I would say I know myself more and love myself more because of Thurgood Marshall. I always like to hear about black history in terms of the smart things people did to better America.