Remember The Titans
A high school football coach finds himself fighting for stakes much higher than the State Championship in this drama based on actual events. In 1971, a court order forces three high schools in Alexandria, Virginia (two white, one African-American), to integrate their student bodies and faculties for the first time. As a result, Coach Bill Yoast longtime head coach of the T.C. Williams High School football team, is asked to step down, and Herman Boone) is appointed to replace him as the school 's first black faculty member. The new coach is hardly welcomed with open arms, either by the school 's staff or the students, and the newly integrated team is full of players (both black and white) who have little trust or respect for one another. But Boone is determined to put a
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Coach Yoast is also continually challenging coach Boone’s authority by talking to the players after coach Boone does and he believes that the only way to improve someone’s ability is by toughening them up.
At the beginning of Garry and Julius’s relationship they wouldn’t acknowledge each other they started as enemies. Julius kept to himself. He didn’t really like his white teammates and Garry starts off as being judgmental, racist, and arrogant. He doesn’t see his African American teammates as the people that they really are.
When they looked at one another it was with revolt and fear. They treated each other with such ignorance and hatred. They couldn’t stand each another and hated the way the other one acted. If they did join with another race it was like a crime. When both Gerry and Julius found out that they were going to be in the same football team they didn’t even want to consider becoming team members.
At the beginning of Remember the Titans, racial tensions between the team members and their friends are apparent on and off the field. This caused several conflict between the team members most of which involved Coach Yoast, Coach Boone and their children Gerry and