The true story behind the most important legal battle of our time.
6.423
186 min
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
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Sidney Poitier | Thurgood Marshall | Unowned |
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Burt Lancaster | John W. Davis | Unowned |
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Richard Kiley | Chief Justice Earl Warren | Unowned |
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Cleavon Little | Robert L. 'Bob' Carter | Unowned |
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Gloria Foster | Vivian 'Buster' Marshall | Unowned |
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John McMartin | Governor James F. Byrnes | Unowned |
| Mark Hammer | Associate Justice Stanley Forman Reed | Unowned | |
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Graham Beckel | Josiah C. Tulley | Unowned |
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Jeffrey Wright | William Coleman | Hangin with Mr. Cooper |
| Ed Hall | Reverend J.A. Delaine | Unowned | |
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Lynne Thigpen | Ruth Alice Stovall | Unowned |
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Hallie Foote | Julia Davis | Unowned |
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Macon McCalman | W.B. Springer | Unowned |
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Randle Mell | Charles L. Black Jr. | Unowned |
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Cheryl Lynn Bruce | Gladys Hampton | Unowned |
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Tommy Hollis | Harry Briggs | Unowned |
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John Rothman | NAACP Attorney Jack Greenberg | Unowned |
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Damien Leake | Dr. Kenneth Clark | Unowned |
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Mike Nussbaum | Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter | Unowned |
| William Hardy | Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark | Unowned | |
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William Cain | Federal Judge J. Waties Waring | Unowned |
| Michael Flippo | Tom | Unowned | |
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Michael L. Nesbitt | Man In Audience | Unowned |
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Ric Reitz | Mr. Straight | Unowned |
| Edward Seamon | E.R. Crow | Unowned | |
| Laurens Moore | Judge | Unowned | |
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Henderson Forsythe | Justice Robert Jackson | Unowned |
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Albert Hall | Oliver Hill | Unowned |
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E. Katherine Kerr | Mrs. Elizabeth Avery Waring | Unowned |
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Tom Aldredge | Justice Hugo Black | Unowned |
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Leonard Jackson | Harold Boulware | Unowned |
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Samuel E. Wright | Artis Patterson | Unowned |
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John Ottavino | Mark Baldwin | Unowned |
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Jon DeVries | David Krech | Unowned |
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Beeson Carroll | Judge John J. Parker | Unowned |
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Charles Dumas | Bob Mong | Unowned |
| Pearce Venning | Harry Briggs Jr. | Unowned | |
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John C. Vennema | Justice William O. Douglas | Unowned |
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Don Dubbins | Professor Al Kelly | Unowned |
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Fracaswell Hyman | Unowned | |
| Robert Blackburn | Unowned | ||
| Ralph Williams | Unowned | ||
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Laura Warner | Court Room Girl | Unowned |
| Sam P. Whitehead | Washington Times Reporter | Unowned | |
| Jack Greenberg | Jack Greenberg | Unowned |