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Civil Rights Movies

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  • The Help
  • The Secret Lives Of Bees
  • Something The Lord Made
  • Talk To Me
  • Glory Road
  • When We Were Colored
  • A Raisin In The Sun
  • King
  • Malcolm X
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • To Kill A Mockingbird
  • Mississippi Burning
  • Ghosts of Mississippi
  • Boycott
  • The Rosa Parks Story
  • The Long Walk Home
  • The Ernest Green Story
  • The Ruby Bridges Story

Something the Lord Made

In Something the Lord Made, Mos Def stars as African-American cardiac medicine pioneer Vivien Thomas, who helped Dr. Alfred Blalock develop modern heart surgery. Despite his medical skills, Thomas still faced the same harsh treatment of segregation.

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