"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
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
William Hardy
as Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark
William Cain
as Federal Judge J. Waties Waring
Michael Flippo
as Tom
Michael L. Nesbitt
as Man In Audience
Ric Reitz
as Mr. Straight
Edward Seamon
as E.R. Crow
Laurens Moore
as Judge
George Stevens Jr.
Director
Writer
Carl Davis
Original Music Composer
Nicholas D. Knowland
Director of Photography