Separate but Equal
Drama
A two-part miniseries. Dramatizes the events leading up to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, "Brown vs. Board of Education."
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
Lynne Thigpen as Ruth Alice Stovall
Macon McCalman as W.B. Springer
Randle Mell as Charles L. Black Jr.
Henderson Forsythe as Justice Robert Jackson
Cheryl Lynn Bruce as Gladys Hampton
Tommy Hollis as Harry Briggs Sr.
John Rothman as Jack Greenberg
Damien Leake as Dr. Kenneth Clark
Albert Hall as Oliver Hill
Mike Nussbaum as Justice Felix Frankfurter
Hallie Foote as Julia Davis
William Cain as Judge J. Waties Waring
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
Fracaswell Hyman
John C. Vennema as Justice William O. Douglas
Don Dubbins as Professor Al Kelly
Jeffrey Wright as William Coleman
Laura Warner as Court Room Girl