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The Great Debaters

The Great Debaters

When the nation was in need, he inspired them to give us hope.Dec. 27, 2007United States126 Min.PG-13
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Based on a true story, the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) at Wiley College, a historically black college related to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (now The United Methodist Church), to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s, when Jim Crow laws were common and lynch mobs were a fear for blacks. The Wiley team eventually succeeds to the point where they are able to debate Harvard University. (In 1935, the Wiley College debate team defeated the reigning national debate champion, the University of Southern California, depicted as Harvard University in The Great Debaters).The Great Debaters 2021 Full Movie Download

The movie explores social constructs in Texas during the Great Depression, from day-to-day insults African Americans endured to lynching. Also depicted is James L. Farmer, Jr. (Denzel Whitaker), who, at 14 years old, was on Wiley’s debate team after completing high school (and who later went on to co-found the Congress of Racial Equality). Another character on the team, Samantha Booke, is based on the real individual Henrietta Bell Wells, acclaimed poet and the only female member of the 1930 Wiley team who participated in the first collegiate interracial debate in the US.The key line of dialogue, used several times, is a famous paraphrase of theologian St. Augustine of Hippo: “An unjust law is no law at all”, which would later be the central thesis of Letter from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King, Jr. Another major line, repeated in slightly different versions according to context, concerns doing what you “have to do” in order that we “can do” what we “want to do.” In all instances, these vital lines are spoken by the James L. Farmer Sr. and James L. Farmer, Jr. characters.

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The Great Debaters
The Great Debaters
The Great Debaters
The Great Debaters
The Great Debaters
Original title The Great Debaters
IMDb Rating 7.5 57,422 votes
TMDb Rating 7.2 409 votes

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Denzel Washington isMelvin B. Tolson
Melvin B. Tolson
Nate Parker isHenry Lowe
Henry Lowe
Forest Whitaker isDr. James Farmer Sr.
Dr. James Farmer Sr.
Denzel Whitaker isJames Farmer Jr.
James Farmer Jr.
Kimberly Elise isPearl Farmer
Pearl Farmer
Jermaine Williams isHamilton Burgess
Hamilton Burgess
Gina Ravera isRuth Tolson
Ruth Tolson
John Heard isSheriff Dozier
Sheriff Dozier
Devyn A. Tyler isHelen Farmer
Helen Farmer
Trenton McClain Boyd isNathaniel Farmer
Nathaniel Farmer




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