Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP (2014)
DVD, 57 minutes
Personal notes
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Biography
African American judges -- Biography
Civil rights lawyers -- Biography
Special features: A conversation wtih Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan and John Paul Stevens
Plot outline
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 a journey of over 20 years laying the groundwork to end legal segregation. He won more Supreme Court cases than any lawyer in American history, making the work of civil rights pioneers like the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks possible.