Separate But Equal
History
TV Movie
Drama
The true story behind the most important legal battle of our time.
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
1991-04-07
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Cast
Director
George Stevens Jr.
Sidney Poitier as Thurgood Marshall
Burt Lancaster as John W. Davis
Richard Kiley as Chief Justice Earl Warren
Cleavon Little as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
Gloria Foster as Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
John McMartin as Governor James F. Byrnes
Graham Beckel as Josiah C. Tulley
Jeffrey Wright as William Coleman
Lynne Thigpen as Ruth Alice Stovall
Hallie Foote as Julia Davis
Macon McCalman as W.B. Springer
Randle Mell as Charles L. Black Jr.
Cheryl Lynn Bruce as Gladys Hampton
Tommy Hollis as Harry Briggs
John Rothman as NAACP Attorney Jack Greenberg
Damien Leake as Dr. Kenneth Clark
Mike Nussbaum as Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
William Cain as Federal Judge J. Waties Waring
Michael L. Nesbitt as Man In Audience
Ric Reitz as Mr. Straight
Henderson Forsythe as Justice Robert Jackson
Albert Hall as Oliver Hill
E. Katherine Kerr as Mrs. Elizabeth Avery Waring
Tom Aldredge as Justice Hugo Black
Leonard Jackson as Harold Boulware
Samuel E. Wright as Artis Patterson
John Ottavino as Mark Baldwin
Jon DeVries as David Krech
Beeson Carroll as Judge John J. Parker
Charles Dumas as Bob Mong
John C. Vennema as Justice William O. Douglas
Don Dubbins as Professor Al Kelly
Fracaswell Hyman
Laura Warner as Court Room Girl