“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.” – Thurgood Marshall. Thurgood Marshall was a famous African American civil rights activists and lawyer who worked with NAACP as the head lawyer. A film named “Marshall” tells the story of an African American and Jewish lawyer who is taken a civil case “The State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell” in Bridgeport, Connecticut from the NAACP. The film “Marshall” had a show time at the local AMC Penn Square mall theater in Oklahoma City. The film gave prime examples of Social Equality, Racism, and Segregation in the North during the 1940’s. Social Equality wasn’t going to be displayed without good evidence and reasonable arguments in court. A Caucasian wealthy woman who is in a bad marriage gets into an affair with a black chauffer.
Social equality was never prize in the United States due to thousands of lynching’s throughout the South in places such as Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas. Many of the civil cases pertaining to the rape of a white woman or child would have end up with a black man or men lynched by the local white men, who are usually KKK members. There is differentially no equality in the criminal justice system. Many black men take plea bargains that would end up placing them in jail for 20 – 30 years. Throughout the …show more content…
Jim Crow laws are made as separate but equal, although the laws weren’t equal. White people got the best of everything whereas the blacks was treated as second class citizens. Blacks had to sit in the back of the bus and give up their sit if a white person wants their sits. Black people never received respect from the whites or the government until we had to come together and fight against an evil belief. Marshall showed me in the movie how to make a change with everything against you, you can make it through the odds and be
Social equality was never prize in the United States due to thousands of lynching’s throughout the South in places such as Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas. Many of the civil cases pertaining to the rape of a white woman or child would have end up with a black man or men lynched by the local white men, who are usually KKK members. There is differentially no equality in the criminal justice system. Many black men take plea bargains that would end up placing them in jail for 20 – 30 years. Throughout the …show more content…
Jim Crow laws are made as separate but equal, although the laws weren’t equal. White people got the best of everything whereas the blacks was treated as second class citizens. Blacks had to sit in the back of the bus and give up their sit if a white person wants their sits. Black people never received respect from the whites or the government until we had to come together and fight against an evil belief. Marshall showed me in the movie how to make a change with everything against you, you can make it through the odds and be