Moved by a speech given by Martin Luther King at her church, Sheyann Webb (Jurnee Smollett) and best friend Rachel West (Stephanie Zandra Peyton) join the Civil Rights Movement while still in grade school. Sheyann tries to motivate her father to do likewise, but he doesn't believe in rocking the boat. When a caucasian Northern minister, Jonathan Daniels (Mackenzie Astin) travels South to register Black voters, he stays with the West family and bonds with both young girls. As the sheriff undermines the activists' work, the road to equality includes detours into prison — and worse. Jimmy Lee Jackson (Zach Rogers) is killed during a protest and Reverend Daniels i...
Released:
1999
Rated:
PG
Length:
88 mins