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  2. Thurgood Marshall - Wikipedia

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    Thurgood [a] Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Norma and William Canfield Marshall. [ 2 ] : 30, 35 His father held various jobs as a waiter in hotels, in clubs, and on railroad cars, and his mother was an elementary school teacher.

  3. Marshall (film) - Wikipedia

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    In April 1941, Thurgood Marshall is an NAACP lawyer traveling the country defending people of color who are wrongly accused of crimes because of racial prejudice. Upon his return to his New York City office, he is sent to Bridgeport, Connecticut, to defend Joseph Spell, a chauffeur accused of rape by his white employer, Eleanor Strubing, in a case that has gripped the newspapers.

  4. Groveland Four - Wikipedia

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    His defense counsel, Thurgood Marshall, gained a change of venue to Marion County, Florida, because of the extensive and adverse publicity around the case in Lake County. Marshall led the defense team from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Irvin was again found guilty. Judge Futch, who was again presiding, sentenced him to death. [22]

  5. 40 Inspiring Movies About Politics To Watch While You Wait ...

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    20. Marshall (2017). The late Chadwick Boseman portrays the man who would become the first Black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, at the beginning of his career in this drama about racism ...

  6. Separate but Equal (film) - Wikipedia

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    The issue before the United States Supreme Court is whether the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution mandates the individual states to desegregate public schools; that is, whether the nation's "separate but equal" policy heretofore upheld under the law, is unconstitutional.

  7. What Thurgood Marshall Taught Me About Police Accountability

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    (Bloomberg Opinion) -- In the early 1980s, I was one of four law clerks for Justice Thurgood Marshall, probably the greatest civil rights lawyer in U.S. history and the first African American to ...

  8. Civil rights experts say replacing Roger Taney statue with ...

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    Marshall’s son, Thurgood Marshall Jr., who is also a lawyer, told Yahoo News that his father would be proud of this honor. “I know he would be immensely moved,” Marshall Jr. said. “Our ...

  9. Wilbert Lee Evans - Wikipedia

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    Before he was led to the electric chair, he pocketed a copy of a plea on his behalf written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, in which Marshall called Evans's imminent execution "dead wrong" and said Evans's execution proved that the Supreme Court could not guarantee "that given sufficient procedural safeguards, the death penalty ...