Dramatizes the life of Wilma Rudolph, telling the story of how she triumphed over poverty and childhood polio to become the first woman to win three gold medals at one Olympics in 1960.
Dramatizes the life of Wilma Rudolph, telling the story of how she triumphed over poverty and childhood polio to become the first woman to win three gold medals at one Olympics in 1960.
Presents the life story of a black woman born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, who is freed at the end of the Civil War, and lives for one hundred more years.
Flora begins life as a sharecropper in Tennessee at the beginning of the twentieth century. After her husband is murdered, she takes her family north, where they struggle through the Great Depression, both World Wars, and the Civil Rights movement.