A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
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
Mark Hammer
as Associate Justice Stanley Forman Reed
Graham Beckel
as Josiah C. Tulley
Jeffrey Wright
as William Coleman
Ed Hall
as Reverend J.A. Delaine
Lynne Thigpen
as Ruth Alice Stovall
Hallie Foote
as Julia Davis
