Separate but Equal

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For the legal doctrine, see separate but equal.

Separate But Equal is a 1991 American television movie depicting the landmark Supreme Court desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, based on the phrase "Separate but equal".

The film starred Sidney Poitier as lead NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, Richard Kiley as Chief Justice Earl Warren, Burt Lancaster as lawyer John W. Davis (loser of Briggs v. Elliott), Cleavon Little as lawyer & judge Robert L. Carter, and Lynne Thigpen as Ruth Alice Stovall.This was viewed by many

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