In Thurgood Marshall's Supreme Court case Sipes vs. McGhee, a homeowners' association tries to kick a Black family out of their neighborhood.

Based on the landmark civil rights case Sipes vs. McGhee, The Color of Courage chronicles the friendship between a white woman and a black woman whose family, the McGhees, has moved into a previously all-white neighborhood. A McGhee granddaughter, Kathleen McGhee-Anderson, wrote the script.—Julie Chapman