The Great Debaters
The film, “The Great Debaters” released in 2007 was a drama based on the life of Melvin B. Tolson and how he aggressively sought to change the perspective of the next generation of African American students in a Jim Crow South. The majority of the film takes place at the all black Wiley College in Marshal, Texas during the 1930’s. Tolson, a professor at Wiley, forms the college’s debate team consisting of; Henry Lowe, a student well versed in poetry, James Farmer Jr., a brilliant fourteen year old with exemplary analytical thinking skills, and Samantha Booke, a female student with the dream of becoming a lawyer who must have the fortitude to overcome not only racism towards blacks, but women as well. I felt this
The film, “The Great Debaters” released in 2007 was a drama based on the life of Melvin B. Tolson and how he aggressively sought to change the perspective of the next generation of African American students in a Jim Crow South. The majority of the film takes place at the all black Wiley College in Marshal, Texas during the 1930’s. Tolson, a professor at Wiley, forms the college’s debate team consisting of; Henry Lowe, a student well versed in poetry, James Farmer Jr., a brilliant fourteen year old with exemplary analytical thinking skills, and Samantha Booke, a female student with the dream of becoming a lawyer who must have the fortitude to overcome not only racism towards blacks, but women as well. I felt this