 Separate but Equal (film)

Separate But Equal is a 1991 American two-part television miniseries depicting the landmark Supreme Court desegregation case "Brown v. Board of Education", based on the phrase ""Separate but equal"".The film stars Sidney Poitier as lead NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, Richard Kiley as Chief Justice Earl Warren, Burt Lancaster (in his final television role) as lawyer John W. Davis (loser of "Briggs v. Elliott" and the Democratic candidate in the 1924 US presidential election), Cleavon Little as lawyer and judge Robert L. Carter, and Lynne Thigpen as Ruth Alice Stovall.