The great debaters is a movie based on a true story, and is set in the 1930’s. It is made by Oprah Winfrey, and is directed by Denzel Washington, whom is also one of the main characters in movie, along with Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, and Denzel Whitaker.
The plot revolves around Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington), a professor at Wiley College and the debate team’s coach. He wants them to be the best and later debate against white people, and even the Harvard debate team. During the movie you can also see a lot of racism, which was common during the great depression, and this time period. One of the most essential scenes in the movie is a scene where they see a man who had been lynched, which was when a mob of white people hung or burned a black man.
They eventually get an answer from Harvard, and they are going to debate them, but Mr. Tolson are not allowed to join them, and they have to do all the work themselves, but they manage to pull it off, and win in the end.
I think it was a good movie about racism and the conditions during the great depression.
I'm glad you liked it and I agree with you. It portrays the life in the 1930s and how it was to be an African American in the south. The scene where they have a man hung up in a tree is awful. To imagine that they would do something like that is terrible.
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