Synopsis

Three decades after the Supreme Court’s pronouncement of “separate but equal,” attorney Charles Hamilton assumed leadership of Howard University’s dilapidated, segregated law school. His ambition was to cultivate a cohort of exceptional Black lawyers, individuals who would dismantle segregation through the meticulous work of legal challenges, state by state. Their persistent and perilous fight would ultimately culminate in triumph with the Supreme Court’s pivotal decision, Brown v. Board of Educ