Chadwick Boseman shined in his role playing James Brown in “Get On Up” and now he is set to play another real life person as he steps into the shoes of highly respected Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall who was the first African American judge of that court.

Reginald Hudlin is directing the movie which follows Marshall as a young lawyer navigating a career-defining case.

Deadline wrote:

The film focuses on an important case in Marshall’s early career: a true incident in the young lawyer life — long before his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Described like this: “As the nation teeters on the brink of WWII, a nearly bankrupt NAACP sends Marshall to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur against his wealthy socialite employer in a sexual assault and attempted murder trial that quickly became tabloid fodder. In need of a high profile victory but muzzled by a segregationist court, Marshall is partnered with Samuel Friedman, a young Jewish lawyer who has never tried a case. Marshall and Friedman struggle against a hostile storm of fear and prejudice, driven to discover the truth in the sensationalized trial which helped set the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement to come.”

He was also a lawyer who went before the high court in Brown vs. The Board of Education case which famously desegregated public schools.

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