With All Deliberate Speed (2004)

With All Deliberate Speed plot

"History ignored is history repeated."

Oliver Brown sued the Kansas City School Board in 1951 on behalf of his eight-year-old daughter Carol. She had to cross dangerous terrain to reach the bus that took her to a faraway school. Her father wanted her to go to the white school, which was much closer. The federal Court initially ruled that the schools were almost equal in quality, and that Plessy was the rule. However, the Supreme Court, headed by Earl Warren, ruled in May 1954 that "in the field of public education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place." According to the Court, racial segregation deprived children of "the equal protection under the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution." A year later, the highest court ordered desegregation to be carried out 'with all deliberate speed'. In this documentary, Peter Gilbert unravels the true story behind this case, with never-before-seen stories from people directly involved in the case

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