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Paul Saltzman

Prom Night in Mississippi

score: 
B
Director: 
Paul Saltzman
Cast: 
Charleston High School
Running Time: 
90
Rated: 
NR
Author(s): 
In 1997, Academy-Award winning actor Morgan Freeman offered to pay for the senior prom at Charleston High School under one condition: the prom had to be racially integrated. His offer was kindly ignored. In 2008, Freeman made the same request, this time to an affirmative from the school board. A few months later, history was made as Charleston High School had its first integrated prom - ever. In the process, racial lines were drawn and traditional lines crossed, paving way for a one-of-a-kind documentary by two-time Emmy Award-winning director Paul Saltzman.

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