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Take a Giant Step (1959)

Directed by Philip Leacock

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.

Length 100 minutes

Actors

Johnny Nash | Estelle Hemsley | Ruby Dee | Frederick O'Neal | Beah Richards | Ellen Holly | Paulene Myers | Royce Wallace | Frances Foster | Roy Glenn | Dee Pollock | Bill Walker | Bernie Hamilton | Delmar Erickson | Sherman Raskin