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1959

Take a Giant Step

Directed by Philip Leacock
From Playground to hunting ground - in a bar!

This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.

Duration

1h 40m

Released

December 1, 1959

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Cast15

  • Johnny Nash
  • Estelle Hemsley
  • Ruby Dee
  • Frederick O'Neal
  • Beah Richards
  • Ellen Holly
  • Paulene Myers
  • Royce Wallace
  • Frances Foster

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