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.

Linda Hamilton
Anna Sipes

Lynn Whitfield
Minnie McGhee

Bruce Greenwood
Benjamin Sipes

Roger Guenveur Smith
Mac McGhee

David Andrews
Philip Renfrew

Jenny O'Hara
Dorothy Renfrew
Gannon Brown
Reggie McGhee
Shan Elliot
Orsel McGhee

Tegan Moss
Maggie Sipes

Kevin McNulty
Thompson

Paul Jarrett
Stanford

Dee Jay Jackson
Fred

Bill Dow
Winchell

Gillian Barber
Carol

Glynis Davies
Audrey