Separate But Equal

IMDb link: 0102879
IMDb rating: 7.6 (936 votes)
Genres: Drama, History
Director: Burt Lancaster, Sidney Poitier, George Stevens Jr.
Cast: Cleavon Little, Richard Kiley and others

Release date: 7 Apr 1991
Release year: 1991
Runtime: 190 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: tv mini series, social commentary, crotchety old man, naacp national association for the advancement of colored people, court, segregation, racial segregation, civil rights movement, brown v board of education, civil rights

Plot:

A dramatization of how the NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall helped black schoolchildren and their parents in South Carolina to fight for equality and for desegregation of public primary schools, first in the district court, then in front of the Supreme Court of the U.S., culminating in the seminal "Brown vs. Board of Education" decision that overturned the "separate but equal" legal doctrine.

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