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1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 60 min.)) : sd., col. |
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digital rda |
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video file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Credits |
Directed by Mick Caouette. |
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Narrator, Mary Easter ; interviewees, Kimberle Crenshaw, Juan Williams, Larry S. Gibson, Rawn James, Roger Wilkins, Jose Anderson, Elena Kagan. |
| Summary |
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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Not rated. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
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United States. Supreme Court -- Biography.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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African American judges -- Biography.
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Civil rights lawyers -- Biography.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Caouette, Mick, screenwriter, film producer, editor of moving image work.
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Easter, Mary, narrator.
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Vaaler, Bob, director of photography.
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Aaron, Phil, composer (expression)
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Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993, participant.
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Crenshaw, Kimberlé, interviewee.
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Williams, Juan, interviewee.
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Gibson, Larry S., 1942- interviewee.
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James, Rawn, interviewee.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Mister Civil Rights : Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP |
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Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP |
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Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall & the NAACP |
| Music No. |
MWT11387681 |
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