Aint going to happen. And slowly, i started to believe, maybe it could. Now, i have reached the point where i still believe maybe it could. It has not yet. Julian i guess that leads into the next question. At the time, he thought it would not mean what it has promised to mean. What you think it has turned out to mean, 52 years later . Toliam it turns out, establish something that i thought, im still think is very important, that is that the government has no business, at all of its levels, has no making separations of people based on race and other irrelevancies. That was an important thing to establish. Important to drive home the fact that it was damaging, quite apart from the legal indications, it is damaging psychologically to children to be told that you may not attend the school because of the color of your skin. Toortunately, we went on damagingher, also said byon when we implication, and i mean we the black community, said by implication, and to some extent so say still say, th
Rights and other courses in critical race studies and constitutional law. Shes been a leader in the Critical Race Theory movement. And in fact, founded a think tank devoted to the study of issues of race and gender entitled the africanamerican policy forum. Shes published extensively in this area. A graduate of cornell and Harvard Law School and has a masters degree from the university of wisconsin. To my immediate right, larry gibson is distinguished professor at the university of Maryland School of law. Professor gibson is the author of a book that i hope many of you have purchased and will read and its called Young Thurgood. A wonderful biography of Justice Marshalls years growing up here in baltimore and beginning to practice law here. Professor gibson himself grew up in baltimore, attended Howard University as under graduate, then earned his law degree from l columbia. The first africanamerican law professor at the university of virginia before accepting a faculty position here in
Cases and civil cases here in baltimore and all the way up to the Supreme Court. Hes taught here and at the Wharton School and has received awards for his teaching, scholarship and mentorship. Ill begin the questioning of this panel. Then i would invite people who have questions to come to the microphone. Ill turn it over to the audience as we progress, but i want to start by asking mick the filmmaker, what brought him to this subject. Why Thurgood Marshall. How did you get from Hubert Humphrey to Thurgood Marshall . That was actually a direct route. What happened was we interviewed Roger Wilkins in the Hubert Humphrey film. They were friends. When we were close to the end of the film i was looking for a new subject and i called roger and said id like to do a film on your uncle roy. He said i love my uncle roy. He was just straight, he did all kinds of wonderful work but he was sort of a midrange sort of businessman type. He was a suit and he just its not that exciting a story. If you
Email us at comments cspan. Org. Tweet us cspan comments. Jon thursday good marshall and the naacp. They explored marshalls early law career as well as his work in the south to expand Voting Rights for africanamericans. Well also hear about his arguments before the u. S. Supreme court and how he became the first africanamerican appointed to the highest court in the land. This program lasts about 50 minutes. Let me introduce our panelists. Youve already met to my far left mick caouette, the producer of mr. Civil rights, distinguished producer of documentary films. Were going to hear from mick about what led him to make this film. To my immediate left Kimberle Crenshaw distinguished professor of law at both ucla and columbia university. Professor crenshaw teaches civil rights and courses in rate studies and constitutional law. Shes been a leader in the Critical Race Theory movement. In fact, founded a think tank devote the to race and gender. Shes published extensively in this area. Shes
Crenshaw distinguished professor of law at both ucla and columbia university. Professor crenshaw teaches civil rights and courses in rate studies and constitutional law. Shes been a leader in the Critical Race Theory movement. In fact, founded a think tank devote the to race and gender. Shes published extensively in this area. Shes a graduate of cornel and Harvard Law School and has a masters degree from the university of wisconsin. To my immediate right, larry gibson is distinguished professor at university of Maryland School of law. Professor gibson is the author of a book that i hope many of you have purchased and will read. Its called young thursday good, a wonderful biography of Justice Marshalls years growing up here and practicing law here. Professor gibson grew up in baltimore, attended howard university. He was the first africanamerican law professor at university of virginia before accepting a faculty position here in maryland. He has been engaged in many civic activities in