Storyline Booker tells the story of Booker T. Washington, who, as a young slave, dreams of learning to read and write. After the Civil War frees him, Booker is forced to work long hours in a salt furnace to help his family survive. But with hard work and persistence, Booker finds a way to learn and gain the freedom that comes with education.
Storyline Set in Chicago in the early nineteen‐sixties, the story focuses on the
push‐pull relationship between an elderly, domineering mother and her
aging, repressed and lonely daughter. As the two characters circle each
other in their tight little world of bitterness and love, a blind street
singer, looking for a woman he had loved years ago, stumbles into their
ghetto apartment and precipitates a confrontation between the two women
and with themselves.
Storyline On August 11, 1965, a routine traffic stop on a hot summer night sparks
years of pent-up frustration within Los Angeles' African American
community into a race riot that shocks the United States as it rages out
of control for days. In this true story, when the all-white staff of
main newspaper in the city, The Los Angeles Times, cannot get into work,
a young, Black trainee Robert Richardson writes a series of Pulitzer
prize-winning articles covering the riots. But as Richardson witnesses
the excessive violence used by the police and national guard, he is torn
between the impartiality required of a reporter and his need to rage
against injustice.
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