Thurgood marshall biography movie

The historical thriller "Marshall" might be named for the first Black Supreme Court Justice, but it isn't a biopic about the civil-rights hero Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman).

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Director Reginald Hudlin told Variety, "It's a thriller, not a biopic, about an early case of one of the greatest lawyers in American history." In 1941, Marshall was sent to Greenwich, Connecticut, by the NAACP to represent a Black chauffeur, Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown), who was accused of the attempted murder and rape of his boss, a white socialite named Eleanor Strubing (Kate Hudson).

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Joseph Spell might not be Marshall's most famous case, which was the landmark segregation case Brown v. The Board of Education, but Spell's case was representative of the criminal cases Marshall took as a litigator for the NAACP. Their mission was to represent pro bono, innocent Black people who were being Everything Marshall Doesn't Tell You About The True Story COWI