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
I find it puzzling. He did vote for lincoln in 1864. Theres no doubt about that. He didnt in 1860 because he couldnt get vote in 1860. But youre quite right that he never really expressed the kind of reverence for lincoln and admiration for lincoln and profound respect for lincolns leadership and what lincoln stood for that one might have thought that, i think, his father, Oliver Wendell holmes sr. , did. And it may have something to do with the kind of skepticism with which he emerged from the war with about so much. Of everything. But it still does puzzle me. I dont have a good answer to that question. Well, he comes out of the war, remember, with a very strong sense of what a mess the campaigns were. And the experience at potomac would have confirmed that. For long periods of Holmes Service hes wading through swamps trying to get from the virginia Northern Neck area to richmond in two different aborttive efforts to invade richmond. He sees people randomly shot. He gets randomly shot
Made the biggest false claims this past year. Democrats tend to get more upset at them because i think they are bothered by the myth of the liberal media and they think that the media is on their side. Republicans firmly believe in the myth of the liberal media. They expect that it is going to be the Washington Post those quote column. They are not going to disturb me. I hope that over the last four years, i have done enough back and forth treated both parties with equal fervor that people have no come have now come to marginally say here so and we can do business with. The Senate Majority pac which is affiliated with harry reid they have stopped answering my questions midway through the Campaign Season because they felt they were not getting a fair shake from a. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q1 day q a. New years day on the cspan networks. Here are some of our featured programs. 10 00 a. M. Eastern. The washington ideas forum. Business magnet t boone pickens. Inve