Take a Giant Step

Take a Giant Step (1959)

December 1st, 19591h 40min

Drama
52%

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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