Thurgood Marshall as a Litigator in Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 (Segment 2) [video 2 min 48 sec]

In a series of press conferences conducted in 1954 (before and after the original Brown v. Board of Education civil rights decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 17) and 1955 (before and after "Brown II" -- the Supreme Court's May 1955 implementation order to proceed "with all deliberate speed"), Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel for the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, explained some of what was at stake in the cases that helped eliminate segregation in American schools. This is a selection from one of those press conferences.