Separate but Equal (1991)

Separate but Equal is a 1991 American two-part television miniseries that dramatizes the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which challenged racial segregation in public schools. 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. Directed by George Ste…