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MARSHALL FILM BACKGROUND

Download a copy of the Marshall press kit filled with background information on the making of the major motion picture, cast and filmmaker biographies.

Viewings of this film and lesson plan discussion meet Common Core Standards.  See the MARSHALL Curriculum Guide for all Standards designations.

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ABOUT MARSHALL

Starring Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, Sterling K. Brown, and James Cromwell. Director Reginald Hudlin’s Marshall, is based on an early trial in the career of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.  It follows the young lawyer (Chadwick Boseman) to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur (Sterling K. Brown) charged with sexual assault and attempted murder of his white socialite employer (Kate Hudson). Muzzled by a segregationist court, Marshall partners with a courageous young Jewish lawyer, Samuel Friedman (Josh Gad). Together they mount the defense in an environment of racism and Anti-Semitism.  The high profile case and the partnership with Friedman served as a template for Marshall’s creation of the NAACP legal defense fund.

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