Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, June 28, 1990 TAG: 9006280395
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The four-hour production to be filmed in South Carolina beginning in August will center on a landmark school desegregation case of the 1950s, director George Stevens Jr. said Tuesday.
Marshall, then an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, argued the case for better schools brought by black residents of Summerton, S.C.
The case eventually was consolidated with four others that were decided in the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education. In that decision, the high court found school segregation unconstitutional.
Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal will star in a new comedy on CBS.
The show, which has not been named, will be a replacement series in the fall.
Fawcett and O'Neal, a real-life couple, will be the same on television.
The program was created by Alan Zweibel, who worked on "Saturday Night Live" and "It's Garry Shandling's Show."
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