[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014];Arlington, VA : PBS Distribution
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- DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen stereo.
- Title from container.
- English subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- Narrator, Mary Easter.
- Composer, Phil Aaron.
- 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.
- Special features: A conversation wtih Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan and John Paul Stevens.
Subjects:
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
- United States. Supreme Court — Officials and employees — Biography.
- African American judges — Biography.
- Civil rights lawyers — Biography.
- Biographical films. lcgft
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcgft
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