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The film follows the trials and tribulations of the Wiley College debate team in 1935 Texas. [2] It stars Washington, Forest Whitaker, Denzel Whitaker, Kimberly Elise, Nate Parker, Gina Ravera, Jermaine Williams, and Jurnee Smollett. The Great Debaters was released in theaters on December 25, 2007 to positive critical reception. [3]
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]
Most recently, some debaters have advanced an argumentation style known as "performance debate" which emphasizes "identity, narrative understandings, and confrontation of life's disparities." [ 23 ] : 23 This argumentation style, advanced predominantly by Black debaters, has been used by debaters to discuss issues related to identity and ...
The 1930 Wiley College debate team. Wells is in the center of the front row. Henrietta Bell Wells (October 11, 1912 – February 27, 2008) was the first female member of the debate team at historically Black Wiley College in Texas. She was born Henrietta Pauline Bell on the banks of Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas to a West Indian single mother.
This category is for films relating to high school debate. ... The Great Debaters; R. ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
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.
[2] [3] The first issue was released in 1996. [2] The magazine was most recently published by RJR Communications, Inc. [4] which became the full owner of the magazine in January 2009. [3] The 2007 motion picture The Great Debaters was based on an article about the Wiley College 1935 debate team that appeared in the Spring 1997 issue. [5]
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