Simple Justice (18 Jan. 1993)

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
	Michael Burgess	...	Horace Durham
	Peter Francis James	...	Thurgood Marshall
	Donald Chambers	...	Archer Felder
	Scott Whitehurst	...	Oliver Hill
	James Avery	...	Charles Hamilton Houston
	Denise Burse	...	Buster Marshall (as Denise Burse-Mickelbury)
	Wayne Dehart	...	Rev Rovey
	Dale Wright	...	Mrs. Moody
	Cleveland Troy Simmons III	...	Small Boy
	Ralph Wilcox	...	Townsend
	Donald Johnson Sr.	...	Poore
	Terence Alexander	...	Walter White (as Terry Alexander)
	General Fermon Judd Jr.	...	Donald Murray
	Bob Burchette	...	Roger Howell
	Marilyn M. Matheus	...	Henrietta Houston

Storyline

The story of Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP's effort to integrate public schools in the south, Simple Justice, based closely on Richard Kluger's book of the same name, recounts the remarkable legal strategy and social struggle that resulted in the US Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The Court's decision not only struck down segregated schools on the basis of race, but announced finally that America had begun to face the consequences of its dehumanizing social practice. In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that racial segregation along "separate but equal" terms was constitutional. Thirty years later, Charles Hamilton Houston took over Howard University's run-down segregated law school with the idea of training a cadre of elite African American lawyers who would wipe out the legal basis for segregation once and for all... Written by Avon Kirkland  

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