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The Great Debaters By Melvin B. Tolson

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The movie “The Great Debaters”, produced by Oprah, directed by Denzel Washington, who also played the role of the Melvin B. Tolson, is an inspirational movie. It is a movie about an extraordinary debate team of an ordinary college, challenging and defeating the mighty Harvard. But it is not only about that; it has something more than that. It portrays, and portrays well, the oppression faced by the blacks in the segregated south. The nicely pulled theme of racism, the ornate literary, strong, emotionally grounded performance- there is just so much to admire about “The Great Debaters”.
This team which goes on an unbeatable feat is from little Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, predominantly a black institution in the Jim Crow South of the 1930s.
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