“Marshall” comes to town

On Sept. 14, Regal Theaters Dole Cannery will be showing a free screening of a film called “Marshall” in sponsorship with two legal advocates in an effort to educate the next generation about their role to move forward social justice.  

Thurgood Marshall’s most famous case is the Brown vs. Board of Education which is what ended the segregation between schools for African American and Caucasian Americans. Marshall later became the first African American that was appointed to the supreme court.

Mark Davis, a founder of the Davis Levin First Amendment Conference (DLFAC) said in a news conference, “This movie about two people who took on a case that was against all odds,” he continued “They didn’t want them there; they didn’t want justice.”

This film shows Marshall early in his life as a lawyer representing cases with National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He works the case with an inexperienced Jewish lawyer, Samuel Friedman. The case brought up is about a sexual assault and murder case against an African-American man.

“There are parallels to what is happening today whether it be in Baltimore, or Ferguson, Missouri, or Los Angeles,” said President of Hawaii’s NAACP, Alphonso Braggs.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai’i (ACLU) and DLFAC worked hand in hand to inform people about the parallels between history and present in terms of our issues and how we choose resolve them.

“Someone had to step up and take the risk to stand up for justice,” said Braggs referring to the two lawyers.