Sidney Poitier
Role: Thurgood Marshall
Burt Lancaster
Role: John W. Davis
Richard Kiley
Role: Chief Justice Earl Warren
Cleavon Little
Role: Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
Gloria Foster
Role: Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
John McMartin
Role: Governor James F. Byrnes
Mark Hammer
Role: Associate Justice Stanley Forman Reed
Graham Beckel
Role: Josiah C. Tulley
Jeffrey Wright
Role: William Coleman
Ed Hall
Role: Reverend J.A. Delaine
Lynne Thigpen
Role: Ruth Alice Stovall
Hallie Foote
Role: Julia Davis
Macon McCalman
Role: W.B. Springer
Randle Mell
Role: Charles L. Black Jr.
Cheryl Lynn Bruce
Role: Gladys Hampton
Tommy Hollis
Role: Harry Briggs
John Rothman
Role: NAACP Attorney Jack Greenberg
Damien Leake
Role: Dr. Kenneth Clark
Mike Nussbaum
Role: Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
William Hardy
Role: Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark
William Cain
Role: Federal Judge J. Waties Waring
Michael L. Nesbitt
Role: Man In Audience
Ric Reitz
Role: Mr. Straight
Edward Seamon
Role: E.R. Crow
Henderson Forsythe
Role: Justice Robert Jackson
Albert Hall
Role: Oliver Hill
E. Katherine Kerr
Role: Mrs. Elizabeth Avery Waring
Tom Aldredge
Role: Justice Hugo Black
Leonard Jackson
Role: Harold Boulware
Samuel E. Wright
Role: Artis Patterson
John Ottavino
Role: Mark Baldwin
Jon DeVries
Role: David Krech
Beeson Carroll
Role: Judge John J. Parker
Charles Dumas
Role: Bob Mong
Pearce Venning
Role: Harry Briggs Jr.
John C. Vennema
Role: Justice William O. Douglas
Don Dubbins
Role: Professor Al Kelly
Laura Warner
Role: Court Room Girl
Sam P. Whitehead
Role: Washington Times Reporter
Jack Greenberg
Role: Jack Greenberg