AP Was There: The rape case at the center of "Marshall" film

EDITOR'S NOTE - The new movie "Marshall" depicts the work of Thurgood Marshall as an NAACP lawyer in 1941 in a Connecticut case where he was defending a black man charged with raping a white woman. More than a decade later, Marshall achieved fame for his role arguing the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case that outlawed segregation in public schools. He later became a Supreme Court justice....

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