Woodlawn The True Story DVD

Woodlawn The True Story DVD In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School Football team. A gifted player must learn to embrace his ability and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field in Woodlawn, a moving and inspirational new film based on the true story of how love and unity overcame hate and division in early 1970s Birmingham, Alabama. Tony Nathan lands in a powder keg of anger and violence when he joins fellow African-American students at Woodlawn High School after its government mandated desegregation in 1973. The Woodlawn Colonels football team is a microcosm of the problems at the school and in the city, which erupts in cross burnings and riots, and Coach Tandy is at a loss to solve these unprecedented challenges with his disciplinarian ways. The 1954 landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka mandated that public schools be desegregated. Integration of the races in public