Communist Organizing in the Jim Crow South
What's Not in The Great Debaters

Cane, Don; Zorn, Jacob
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/925/debaters.html

Publisher:  Workers Vanguard
Date Written:  21/11/2008
Year Published:  2008  
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX16246

The Great Debaters is a well-made movie. But in its paeans to dedication and debate, it downplays the real social struggle that was going on in the U.S. in the 1930s, including by black people in the South.

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