Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, speaks. Brief shot of dramatization of Dred Scott in court room. African American students inside a school bus. Closeup shots of white hands holding chains, a brick, and a bat. Thurgood Marshall notes, "What is striking to me is the importance of law in determining the condition of the African American...I submit the history of the African American in this country demonstrates the importance of getting rid of hostile laws and seeking the security of new friendly laws, federal, state, and local."
United States President Lyndon B. Johnson announcing his appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first African American to become a justice in the United States Supreme Court. Johnson notes that, "the senate willing, he will become associate justice to succeed justice Clark." Various still images of Thurgood Marshall's career in court. An African American man notes, "now, a new generation of Thurgood Marshalls must struggle to make the constitution live."
Wide view of skyline of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Various scenes of activity in busy urban cities: A street crowded with pedestrians walking. View of pile driver in operation. Construction worker uses a jackhammer. Pedestrians on their way to work cross a street. A police traffic officer, wearing sunglasses, directs traffic. A wrecking ball hits a brick wall. Man pushes a clothes trolley as he crosses a street. Man operates a loader. A man buys a pie through an automat door. An African-American man eats a hotdog sandwich. A man, wearing glasses, finishes his drink and buys a newspaper. A front end loader scoops and unload rubble from demolished building. Men entering a building through a glass revolving door. Buses pass by near a train. San Francisco Cable Car climbing up the road. A wrecking ball hits a brick wall. Close up of a woman’s eye open. A woman’s vital signs being examined by a doctor to study her stress level. She has a cuff on her arm, possibly for measurement of blood pressure.
In a laboratory, a scientist places a rat in a small cage containing another rat. The latter attacks the new rat, after it felt threatened by its unfamiliar presence. The attack stops and the rat sniffs the newcomer. The new rat walks away. The rat attacks the newcomer again.
A street crowded with pedestrians walking. A crowded beach full of umbrellas and people visiting the beach. African men and women in a crowded marketplace. African woman, with a basket sitting on top of her head, walking among the crowd. A crowd full of Indian men.
A doctor adjusts a medical cuff strap on a woman’s right arm. Woman, wearing a Twiggy-style make-up, is being examined by doctor for her stress level. Doctor puts on another medical cuff strap on woman’s left arm. Doctor adjusts pump and monitors her stress level through a medical seismometer, showing a gentle blood flow. “That’s very, very good. Completely relaxed” the doctor said. A metronome and pocket watch are activated, the sounds from the objects change the woman’s stress level.
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