Steve Cohen: “Today is the last day of Black History Month, a month when we reflect back on African Americans who have contributed so…”

“Today is the last day of Black History Month, a month when we reflect back on African Americans who have contributed so much to our country and our world. One man whose life encapsulates the African American struggle was Thurgood Marshall. George Stevens produced a play called ``Thurgood'' at the Kennedy Center. The play has been put to film on HBO. I think it's still available on HBO; at least on demand. It is the story of a man who was committed to justice. Through the NAACP, he argued Brown v. Board of Education, the most significant civil rights case, maybe the most significant Supreme Court case of all time. He became the first African American solicitor general in this country and the first African American Supreme Court justice and served honorably on that court. He was a man that never forgot where he came from. His responsibility and duty to see that he carried on justice and the fights that he carried with him as an attorney and on the court to see that social justice and America became the country that was promised in the Constitution and in the Declaration of Independence but had not become except through Supreme Court rulings. Thank God for Thurgood Marshall. I urge everybody to watch George Stevens' production on HBO and learn about this great man's life.”