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The Great Debaters is a 2007 American historical drama film directed by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by Robert Eisele and based on a 1997 article for American Legacy by Tony Scherman. The film follows the trials and tribulations of the Wiley College debate team in 1935 Texas. [ 2 ]
He argued that debate, as a form of public speaking, required debaters to publicly commit to their positions within a debate round. Quoting Brooks Quimby, a prolific debate coach at Bates College, Murphy claimed that debaters needed to be "men and women of principle" rather than "men and women trained to take either side at the flip of a coin."
As a debate coach at the historically black Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, Tolson led a team that pioneered interracial college debates against white colleges in the segregated South. [2] This work was depicted in the 2007 biopic The Great Debaters, produced by Oprah Winfrey, starring and directed by Denzel Washington as Tolson. [2] [3]
Denzel Washington's character quoted extensively from the speech in a scene from the 2007 movie The Great Debaters. This is an anachronism, as the movie is set in the 1930s, nearly 40 years before the letter was "discovered".
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This category is for films relating to high school debate. Pages in category "Films about high school debate" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Steve Lopez asked three experts on aging to watch the debate and share their take on the candidates' command, coherence, competence, composure, reason and skills of communication and articulation.
In their first debate, the audio went out on the broadcast, forcing a delay of 27 minutes while technicians fixed the problem. Carter and Ford remained frozen at their podiums the entire time.