A landmark of American cinema made at the height of the civil rights movement, Michael Roemer’s tender, groundbreaking first feature, starring Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, and Julius Harris, reveals the toll of systemic racism through its honest portrait of a southern Black railroad worker confronting the daily challenges of discrimination and economic precarity.
A landmark of American cinema made at the height of the civil rights movement, Michael Roemer’s tender, groundbreaking first feature, starring Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, and Julius Harris, reveals the toll of systemic racism through its honest portrait of a southern Black railroad worker confronting the daily challenges of discrimination and economic precarity.
