#131 "Marshall" Live Hard. Fight Harder. Review...

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🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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#131 "Marshall" Live Hard. Fight Harder. Review...

The Not Old Better Show, Movies for Adults

October 2, 2017 is the 50th anniversary of Justice Thurgood Marshall’s swearing-in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on October 2, 1967. He was the Court’s 96th justice and the first African American to hold a seat on the Supreme Court.

If you have to see one motion picture this weekend or place a film on your must-see list of fall films, I wholeheartedly recommend Marshall. As the title suggests, the movie is about Thurgood Marshall, the iconic civil rights attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who used the courtroom to break racial barriers and help decimate institutionalized Jim Crow when he won the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which declared state laws that established segregation in schools to be unconstitutional. It is fitting that the movie is being released on the 50th anniversary of Marshall being named the first black Supreme Court justice.

Enjoy "Marshall."

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Notta Olive Better Show and your host Paul Volkvang.
0:10.7	You gentlemen are making a big mistake.
0:17.0	This is Mr. Thurgood Marshall.
0:19.0	This man is an attorney.
0:20.0	You will treat him with the respect that he deserves.
0:22.0	October 2nd, 2017 is the 50th anniversary of Justice Thurgood Marshals
0:28.0	squaring in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
0:34.4	He was the court's 96th justice and the first African American to hold a seat on the Supreme
0:40.8	Court.
0:41.8	Justice Marshall had a monumentally successful career arguing before the Supreme Court.
0:46.0	As President Johnson then noted,
0:48.1	Marshall is already in the front ranks of the great lawyers of this generation. He has argued 32 cases before
0:55.7	the Supreme Court. He has won 29 of them and that is a batting average of 900. As a matter of fact, and many in our not old better audience will recall,
1:05.4	President Lyndon Johnson announced Marshall's nomination
1:08.8	to the court on June 13, 1967, the day after the court in the Loving versus Virginia case, struck down Virginia's
1:18.4	anti-misigination law, the last major vestige of the racial apartheid era.
1:25.5	We reviewed the movie Loving last year with many of you commenting having enjoyed it, so
1:32.1	there are parallels in time and space here with
1:34.7	the film Marshall. This film though takes place before Thurgood Marshall
1:39.8	began serving on the Supreme Court when Marshall served as the go-to trial lawyer for the
1:45.8	N-Double ACP. Lots of parallels in music and you're listening to some swing music right now and
1:52.2	the music from Marshall is excellent but I'm getting ahead of myself.
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