With All Deliberate Speed

On May 17, 1954, Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, read the court's unexpectedly unanimous ruling in Brown vs. the Board of Education, one of the most bitterly divisive cases of the 20th century. It declared that the "segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race... denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment," and ordered the integration of all public schools "with all deliberate speed." Peter Gilbert's painstaking documentary examines the circumstances surrounding this historic decision, the acrimonious legal battles and pe...