Separate but Equal

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Separate but Equal

1991- 1991

1 Seasons

2 Episodes

6.0(3 votes)

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Drama

Overview

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

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Cast & Crew

39 members

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Sidney Poitier

Thurgood Marshall

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Burt Lancaster

John W. Davis

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Richard Kiley

Chief Justice Earl Warren

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Cleavon Little

Robert L. 'Bob' Carter

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Gloria Foster

Vivian 'Buster' Marshall

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John McMartin

Governor James F. Byrnes

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Graham Beckel

Josiah C. Tulley

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Ed Hall

Reverend J.A. Delaine

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Lynne Thigpen

Ruth Alice Stovall

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Macon McCalman

W.B. Springer

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Randle Mell

Charles L. Black Jr.

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Henderson Forsythe

Justice Robert Jackson

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Cheryl Lynn Bruce

Gladys Hampton

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Tommy Hollis

Harry Briggs Sr.

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John Rothman

Jack Greenberg

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Damien Leake

Dr. Kenneth Clark

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Albert Hall

Oliver Hill

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Mike Nussbaum

Justice Felix Frankfurter

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Hallie Foote

Julia Davis

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William Cain

Judge J. Waties Waring

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E. Katherine Kerr

Mrs. Elizabeth Avery Waring

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Tom Aldredge

Justice Hugo Black

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Leonard Jackson

Harold Boulware

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Edward Seamon

E.R. Crow

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Mark Hammer

Justice Stanley Forman Reed

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Samuel E. Wright

Artis Patterson

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John Ottavino

Mark Baldwin

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Jon DeVries

David Krech

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Beeson Carroll

Judge John J. Parker

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Charles Dumas

Bob Mong

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Fracaswell Hyman

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Pearce Venning

Harry Briggs Jr.

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John C. Vennema

Justice William O. Douglas

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Robert Blackburn

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Ralph Williams

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William Hardy

Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark

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Don Dubbins

Professor Al Kelly

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Jeffrey Wright

William Coleman

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Laura Warner

Court Room Girl

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