A GREAT movie to see is the Great Debaters. It is about a debate team from Wiley College in 1940 deep South. Of course, Denzel Washington plays the debate coach! The movie follows their journey to a debate tournament at Harvard University. Of course they make it! But along the journey you see what life in the Jim Crow South looks like for African Americans.
In class we talked about Thoreau and Civil Disobedience. Thoreau hated President Polk and the Mexican American War so he protested peacefully or Civil Disobedience by not paying his taxes. So now when you protest or resist peacefully one calls it Civil Disobedience. In the movie when they make it to Harvard for the debate - Harvard tries to throw them on their toes and changed the theme of the debate to Civil Disobedience, but it worked in thier favor. The last line always gives me goose bumps.
I also love Denzel Washington's introduction to his debaters!
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