Separate But Equal -DVD-17153139976

Based on the ground-breaking Brown vs. the Board of Education case. the made-for-television Separate But Equal follows a young Thurgood Marshall (Sidney Poitier) as a lawyer who argues the racially-charged lawsuit before the Supreme Court. When the black students of Clarendon County. South Carolina are denied their request for a single schoolbus. a bitter and courages battle for justice and equality begins. The NAACP lawyers desparate fight for the civil rights that didnt come with the outlaw of slavery nearly a century ago becomes an all-encompassing struggle both in his personal life as well as the courtroom. Marshalls opponent is John W. Davis (Burt Lancaster) and the two argue passionately and eloquently before a Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren {($Richard Kiley). Separate But Equal is a moving and human dramatization of one of the most pivotal court cases in American history. ~ Tracie Cooper. All Movie Guide