From the Amazon Review: …Based on Sheyann Webb's
memoir, this movie effectively serves as a Mississippi Burning for kids.
As 11-year-old Sheyann (Eve's Bayou's Jurnee Smollet) learns more about
the degradation of her people, so, too, will a whole new generation. But the
lesson is far from pleasant. With the exception of earnest seminary student
Jonathan Daniels (Mackenzie Astin), a Yankee who's come down South to help
register blacks to vote, the white people seem cartoonishly hateful. It's
sobering to realize that this behavior really happened and was either
sanctioned or ignored by the government. Being forced to guess the number of
jellybeans in a jar in order to vote and being gassed and beaten for marching
are just some of the indignities Sheyann and her friends endure… Inspiring, but a bit brutal… --Kimberly Heinrichs
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