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Separate But Equal

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Separate But Equal

The true story behind the most important legal battle of our time.

6.5

3h 6m

1991

“The true story behind the most important legal battle of our time.”

Synopsis

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

Director

George Stevens Jr.

HistoryTV MovieDrama

civil rightsracial segregationcourtroom

Cast & Crew

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

as Thurgood Marshall

Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster

as John W. Davis

Richard Kiley

Richard Kiley

as Chief Justice Earl Warren

Cleavon Little

Cleavon Little

as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter

Gloria Foster

Gloria Foster

as Vivian 'Buster' Marshall

John McMartin

John McMartin

as Governor James F. Byrnes

Mark Hammer

as Associate Justice Stanley Forman Reed

Graham Beckel

Graham Beckel

as Josiah C. Tulley

Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright

as William Coleman

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