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The true story behind the most important legal battle of our time.
6.5 / 10 IMDb April 7, 1991 3h 6m
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
Director
Runtime
3h 6m
Release Date
April 7, 1991
Genre
History, TV Movie, Drama
Status
Released
Languages
English
Country
United States of America
Writers
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
No photo
Mark Hammer
as Associate Justice Stanley Forman Reed
Graham Beckel
as Josiah C. Tulley
Jeffrey Wright
as William Coleman
No photo
Ed Hall
as Reverend J.A. Delaine
Lynne Thigpen
as Ruth Alice Stovall
Hallie Foote
as Julia Davis
Macon McCalman
as W.B. Springer
Randle Mell
as Charles L. Black Jr.
Cheryl Lynn Bruce
as Gladys Hampton
Tommy Hollis
as Harry Briggs
John Rothman
as NAACP Attorney Jack Greenberg
Damien Leake
as Dr. Kenneth Clark
Mike Nussbaum
as Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
No photo
William Hardy
as Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark
Production Companies
Republic PicturesNew Liberty Productions
George Stevens Jr. Productions
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