In 1997, Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman offered to pay for the senior prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi under one condition: the prom had to be racially integrated. His offer was ignored. In 2008, Freeman offered again and this time the school board accepted; and history was made. Charleston High School had its first ever integrated prom that year, but we quickly learn that change does not come easily for this sleepy Delta town.

"It was the first time all year that everyone in the class participated in the discussion after the film screened.  The kids stood up and gave it a standing ovation!" - Tasha Serba, Lester B. Pearson CI