Freedom Song (2000)

Directors

Phil Alden Robinson

Cast

Danny Glover, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Loretta Devine, Glynn Turman, Stan Shaw, Michael Jai White, John Beasley, Jason Weaver, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly, Marcello Thedford, David Strathairn, Omar Gooding, Stephen Snedden, Felix Justice, Tyrone Hicks, Brandi Hancock, Patti Briscoe, Don Henderson Baker, Donna Biscoe, Jeff Coopwood, David Schifter, Kirk Taylor, Damien Dante Wayans, Gregory Alan Williams, Bradford Tillery, Sonny Shroyer, Janell McLeod, Rasool J'Han, William Flaman, Margaret Freeman, Shay Dobson-Webb, Joe Cobb Jr.

The story

Freedom Song is told in flashbacks from the perspective of Owen Walker, a high school student in the fictional town of Quinlan, Mississippi in the early 1960s. Growing up in an insulated black community, Owen is oblivious to the white supremacy that still reigned in his town until he has a run-in with racists at a local bus station. While waiting for the bus, five-year-old Owen wanders unknowingly into the "Whites Only" diner.

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