Laurence Fishburne in "Thurgood", portrays Thurgood Marshall, a pioneering civil rights attorney who grew up in the backstreets of Baltimore, argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court, and became the first African-American Supreme Court justice. Leonard Foglia directs the play which is written by George Stevens Jr.
(ARI MINTZ, Newsday Staff / April 30, 2008)
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