Thurgood on Broadway

I went the other night to see Laurence Fishburne in his one-man show Thurgood at the Booth Theatre. Sat in the first row. The entire stage set consisted of the big table and lectern from behind which lawyers stood before the court. It was extraordinary storytelling; great script, great acting.

He talked at length about the behind-the-scenes arguments at the NAACP before and during Brown v Board of Education, and it brought back memories of driving around Knoxville with Glenn Reynolds hearing about the classes in Constitutional Law he was teaching.