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Team colors: film explores racial divide in 1930s America.

Publication: Education Next
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Team colors: film explores racial divide in 1930s America.(The Great Debaters )(Movie review)

Article Excerpt
As reviewed by David Steiner

The Great Debaters Viewed May 2008

In the 1930s, an all-black debate team from a small East Texas college defeated the all-white debate team of the University of Southern California (USC) in front of at least a thou sand people. The Wiley College team was trained by English professor Melvin Tolson and anchored by James Farmer Jr., later founder of the Congress of Racial Equality. Take a little poetic license to replace USC with Harvard, and you have a classic David-defeats-Goliath tale that is Denzel Washing ton's movie The Great Debaters.

Even this wordy summary, however, fails to give you the measure of the film: James Jr. was 14 years old at the time of the great debate and...

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