Desc: Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise: Directed by Carol Bash, Lullie Haddad, Stanley Nelson, Cyndee Readdean. With Joe Morton. On May 17, 1954, in its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the doctrine of "separate but equal," ending legal segregation in American education. Fifty years later, how close is America to fulfilling the promise of Brown?