They argued to desegregate washington, d.c. why was it controversial? >> it was controversial because washington, d.c., they couldn't argue the 14th amendment because that only dealt with states. they had to argue the fifth amendment, due process. liberty, the idea that just because the color of your skin shouldn't dining room where you went to school. they didn't argue separate but equal. if they failed, just imagine what would have been cemented into law. >> now, those two lawyers were just two of many that went on to extraordinary careers, extraordinary lives out of dunbar high school. that...