Separate But Equal

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.

History TV Movie Drama

Sidney Poitier

(Thurgood Marshall)

Burt Lancaster

(John W. Davis)

Richard Kiley

(Chief Justice Earl Warren)

Cleavon Little

(Robert L. 'Bob' Carter)

Gloria Foster

(Vivian 'Buster' Marshall)

John McMartin

(Governor James F. Byrnes)

Mark Hammer

(Associate Justice Stanley Forman Reed)

Graham Beckel

(Josiah C. Tulley)

Jeffrey Wright

(William Coleman)

Ed Hall

(Reverend J.A. Delaine)

Lynne Thigpen

(Ruth Alice Stovall)

Hallie Foote

(Julia Davis)

Macon McCalman

(W.B. Springer)

Randle Mell

(Charles L. Black Jr.)

Cheryl Lynn Bruce

(Gladys Hampton)

Tommy Hollis

(Harry Briggs)

John Rothman

(NAACP Attorney Jack Greenberg)

Damien Leake

(Dr. Kenneth Clark)

Mike Nussbaum

(Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter)

William Hardy

(Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark)

William Cain

(Federal Judge J. Waties Waring)

Michael Flippo

(Tom)

Michael L. Nesbitt

(Man In Audience)

Ric Reitz

(Mr. Straight)

Edward Seamon

(E.R. Crow)

Laurens Moore

(Judge)

Henderson Forsythe

(Justice Robert Jackson)

Albert Hall

(Oliver Hill)

E. Katherine Kerr

(Mrs. Elizabeth Avery Waring)

Tom Aldredge

(Justice Hugo Black)

Leonard Jackson

(Harold Boulware)

Samuel E. Wright

(Artis Patterson)

John Ottavino

(Mark Baldwin)

Jon DeVries

(David Krech)

Beeson Carroll

(Judge John J. Parker)

Charles Dumas

(Bob Mong)

Pearce Venning

(Harry Briggs Jr.)

John C. Vennema

(Justice William O. Douglas)

Don Dubbins

(Professor Al Kelly)

Fracaswell Hyman

Robert Blackburn

Ralph Williams

Laura Warner

(Court Room Girl)

Sam P. Whitehead

(Washington Times Reporter)

Jack Greenberg

(Jack Greenberg)