Will Smith, using graphics & actors, hosts this survey of the long struggle for Blacks to become full citizens, centering on the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Black Cecil Gaines, serving as a butler at the White House, endures racism but sees the growing civil rights movement advance the status of his
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
In Depression era Alabama two young children of a white lawyer witness their father buck racism by defending a black man charged with raping a white woman.