Prejudicial Differences In Remember The Titans

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Based on a true story set during the years of integration between the black and white students at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria Virginia circa 1971. Remember the Titans tell of the famed Titans football team which was headed up that very same year by the team's first black coach, earnest family man Herman Boone. At first previous head Coach Bill Yoast Will Patton is upset to be put down as the assisting coach to Herman Boone’s. But just as Boone teaches his team how to get along and overcome their racial and prejudicial differences. Yoast begins to sympathize and deeply relate to Boone himself.

One of the pleasures in watching Remember the Titans is realizing how the movie is not so much about the Titans football team winning the

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