Separate but Equal

A two-part miniseries. Dramatizes the events leading up to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, "Brown vs. Board of Education."

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)

Graham Beckel

(Josiah C. Tulley)

Ed Hall

(Reverend J.A. Delaine)

Lynne Thigpen

(Ruth Alice Stovall)

Macon McCalman

(W.B. Springer)

Randle Mell

(Charles L. Black Jr.)

Henderson Forsythe

(Justice Robert Jackson)

Cheryl Lynn Bruce

(Gladys Hampton)

Tommy Hollis

(Harry Briggs Sr.)

John Rothman

(Jack Greenberg)

Damien Leake

(Dr. Kenneth Clark)

Albert Hall

Mike Nussbaum

(Justice Felix Frankfurter)

Hallie Foote

William Cain

(Judge J. Waties Waring)

E. Katherine Kerr

(Mrs. Elizabeth Avery Waring)

Tom Aldredge

(Justice Hugo Black)

Leonard Jackson

(Harold Boulware)

Edward Seamon

Mark Hammer

(Justice Stanley Forman Reed)

Samuel E. Wright

(Artis Patterson)

John Ottavino

Jon DeVries

Beeson Carroll

(Judge John J. Parker)

Charles Dumas

Fracaswell Hyman

Pearce Venning

(Harry Briggs Jr.)

John C. Vennema

(Justice William O. Douglas)

Robert Blackburn

Ralph Williams

William Hardy

(Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark)

Don Dubbins

(Professor Al Kelly)

Jeffrey Wright

(William Coleman)

Laura Warner

(Court Room Girl)