Take a Giant Step (1959)
• December 1st, 1959 • 1h 40min
Drama
Overview
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.
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