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The Great Debaters is a 2007 American historical drama film directed by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by Robert Eisele and based on a 1997 article for American Legacy by Tony Scherman. The film follows the trials and tribulations of the Wiley College debate team in 1935 Texas. [ 2 ]
Melvin Beaunorus Tolson (February 6, 1898 – August 29, 1966) was an American poet, educator, columnist, and politician. As a poet, he was influenced both by Modernism and the language and experiences of African Americans, and he was deeply influenced by his study of the Harlem Renaissance.
Denzel Washington's character quoted extensively from the speech in a scene from the 2007 movie The Great Debaters. This is an anachronism, as the movie is set in the 1930s, nearly 40 years before the letter was "discovered".
Since then, Smollett played Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Smallest Freedom Fighter” (8-year-old Sheyann Webb) in the 1999 TV movie “Selma, Lord Selma”; the sole female debater at a ...
The Great Debaters” (Lexington, 2017) and “Debate as Global Pedagogy: Rwanda Rising” (Lexington, 2021) detailing how public arguments positively change public policies.
The 2007 biographical film The Great Debaters is about the Wiley College debate team coached by Melvin B. Tolson. [ 91 ] The 2017 young-adult novel Dear Martin , by Nic Stone , follows the captain of a high school debate team as he responds to racial discrimination within his school.
Powell, who considered putting acting on the back-burner, noted that things seemed to change after meeting Washington on the set of the 2007 the historical drama “The Great Debaters." At that ...
The 2007 motion picture The Great Debaters was based on an article about the Wiley College 1935 debate team that appeared in the Spring 1997 issue. [5] As of 2007, the magazine had circulation of 500,000, 80 percent of which was free distribution via schools, black churches, and other organizations. [4]