Here are the last three paragraphs:

Fifty years ago this month, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black justice on the Supreme Court, but he'd already earned his place in the history books decades earlier. Notwithstanding his reliably liberal jurisprudence, many black activists in the 1970s and '80s viewed him as a member of the conservative law-and-order establishment.

He didn't much care for them, either, according to [biographer Juan] Williams. "Marshall was so contemptuous of the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons in the 1980s," he told me. "To him, they weren't seriously advancing the constitutional protection of rights, which is what Marshall was all about, and they weren't advancing goals like better education or employment opportunities. He saw them as a carnival, a distraction."

Sadly, the carnival continues and if anything has gotten sillier. (In August the NAACP urged blacks to "exercise extreme caution" while traveling in Missouri due to recent police shootings in the state.) But for anyone interested, "Marshall" vividly recalls a time when civil-rights activists and organizations deserved to be taken seriously.

"Member of the conservative law-and-order establishment" is a knee-slapper.

Riley isn't the WSJ's film critic, but I found his thoughts on the film interesting.

The cultural critic James Bowman has remarked that movie history is history for suckers, and that's often the case. But "Marshall" gets a lot of the history right, even as it fudges details of the sensational trial at the center of the movie, which involves a black man who is accused of raping and attempting to murder a wealthy white woman in Connecticut. Marshall is a young lawyer for the NAACP who traipses the country representing black defendants the organization believes were unjustly accused out of racial prejudice. The movie is, above all else, a wondrous glimpse back at how a previous generation of black leaders dutifully went about the task of advancing the race and making America more just.

Love that "history for suckers" line.  I am reluctant to see anything Hollywood puts out on history as they so often screw it up.  Maybe I will make an exception for this one.