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This movie describes a first African-American lawyer who became the Court's 96th justice. The movie revolves around Thurgood Marshall. At a young aged he faced one of his greatest challenges while working as a lawyer for the NAACP. Marshall traveled to a conservative Connecticut area but wealthy well known person in society, named Eleanor Strubing accuses a black chauffeur, named Joseph Spell of sexual assault and attempted murder. Spell soon teams up with Sam Friedman, a local Jewish lawyer who's never handled a criminal case. The two men, together build a defense while contending with racist and anti-Semitic views from those who deem Spell to be guilty. One decision is made by the sitting judge known as judge Foster, an imperious old white

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