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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 ]
In 2007, Parker played the role of Henry Lowe in the Denzel Washington-directed film The Great Debaters. The character was based on the real-life debater Henry Heights, from Wiley College. Parker attended a debate boot camp to make his performance more authentic. [20] He portrayed a multifaceted character.
The 1930 Wiley College debate team. Wells is in the center of the front row. Henrietta Bell Wells (October 11, 1912 – February 27, 2008) was the first female member of the debate team at historically black Wiley College in Texas.
Henry Lowe (scientist) (born 1939), Jamaican scientist, philanthropist and businessman Henry Lowe (politician) (1652–1717), planter, soldier and politician in colonial Maryland Harry Lowe (footballer, born March 1886) (Henry Charles Lowe, 1886–1958), English footballer for Gainsborough Trinity, Liverpool and Nottingham Forest
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 ...
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.
Steve Lopez asked three experts on aging to watch the debate and share their take on the candidates' command, coherence, competence, composure, reason and skills of communication and articulation.
Henry H. Lowe (August 4, 1795 – July 8, 1854) was a land and slave owner, state legislator, and state militia officer in Harris County, Georgia, United States. [ 1 ] In 1829 he was involved in establishing and marketing the town of Hamilton, Georgia on what had been Muscogee land until it was ceded in 1826. [ 2 ]