Separate But Equal

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

Cast

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

Mark Hammer

as Associate Justice Stanley Forman Reed

Graham Beckel

as Josiah C. Tulley

Jeffrey Wright

as William Coleman

Ed Hall

as Reverend J.A. Delaine

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

It is educational...and as someone that works in history, I can see a teacher wanting to be lazy and using "Separate But Equal" as an excuse for it... ...but I doubt I'd ever do it. I'd want my students to form an interest in movies based on historical events. I don't know what Poitier was thi...

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