Separate but Equal
1991 • 1 SeasonA two-part miniseries. Dramatizes the events leading up to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, "Brown vs. Board of Education."
Top Series 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
Randle Mell
as Charles L. Black Jr.
Henderson Forsythe
as Justice Robert Jackson
Cheryl Lynn Bruce
as Gladys Hampton
Tommy Hollis
as Harry Briggs Sr.
John Rothman
as Jack Greenberg
Damien Leake
as Dr. Kenneth Clark
Albert Hall
as Oliver Hill
Mike Nussbaum
as Justice Felix Frankfurter
Hallie Foote
as Julia Davis
William Cain
as Judge J. Waties Waring
E. Katherine Kerr
as Mrs. Elizabeth Avery Waring
Tom Aldredge
as Justice Hugo Black
Leonard Jackson
as Harold Boulware
Edward Seamon
as E.R. Crow
Mark Hammer
as Justice Stanley Forman Reed
Samuel E. Wright
as Artis Patterson
John Ottavino
as Mark Baldwin
Jon DeVries
as David Krech
Beeson Carroll
as Judge John J. Parker
Charles Dumas
as Bob Mong
Fracaswell Hyman
Pearce Venning
as Harry Briggs Jr.
John C. Vennema
as Justice William O. Douglas
Robert Blackburn
Ralph Williams
William Hardy
as Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark
Don Dubbins
as Professor Al Kelly
Jeffrey Wright
as William Coleman
Laura Warner
as Court Room Girl
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