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Prom Night in Mississippi (v.o.a.)

Prom Night in Mississippi

Date de Sortie: vendredi 13 novembre 2009
Genre: Documentaire

Réalisateur: Paul Saltzman
Producteur: Patricia Aquino, Paul Saltzman
Scénario: Paul Saltzman
Studio: KinoSmith
Durée: 90 min.

Résumé:

In 1997, Academy Award–winning actor Morgan Freeman offered to pay for the senior prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi under one condition: the prom had to be racially integrated. His offer was ignored. In 2008, Freeman offered again. This time the school board accepted, and history was made.

Charleston High School had its first-ever integrated prom—in 2008. Until then, blacks and whites had had separate proms even though their classrooms have been integrated for decades. Canadian filmmaker Paul Saltzman follows students, teachers, and parents in the lead-up to the big day.