Overview
A two-part miniseries. Dramatizes the events leading up to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, "Brown vs. Board of Education."
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
- Graham Beckel as Josiah C. Tulley
- Ed Hall as Reverend J.A. Delaine
- Lynne Thigpen as Ruth Alice Stovall
- Macon McCalman as W.B. Springer