An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win (2016)

Directors

Tina Mabry

The story

Set in 1963, the film revolves around Melody Ellison, an African-American girl living in Detroit, Michigan, with her mother Frances and her grandfather Frank. Early on she and her family face racial inequality in their hometown, with Melody being bullied at school by a white student named Donald along with his friends for her ethnicity, or wrongfully accused of shoplifting at a clothing store where Melody's mother works. A turning point for Melody comes when a fellow student expresses her intention of moving to another school out of fear for being discriminated, and when news about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was aired on…

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