Take a Giant Step (1959)

Directors

Phillip Leacock

Cast

Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee, Frederick O'Neal, Beah Richards, Ellen Holly

The story

Spencer "Spence" Scott (Johnny Nash) is a 17-year-old black high school senior who has lived his entire life in a middle-class white neighborhood of an unnamed city in the northern United States. Having been raised with a sense of self-respect, he is starting to become frustrated by the effects of racism. When his history teacher speaks ill of the intellect of black slaves during the American Civil War, he objects, and when the teacher dismisses the objection, he storms angrily out of the classroom and slips into the bathroom to calm down by smoking a cigar.

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