Woodlawn: One Hope. One Dream. One Way
β Scribed by Woodlawn High School (Birmingham, Ala.);Gerelds, Tandy;Gerelds, Thomas Todd;Nathan, Tony;Schlabach, Mark
- Book ID
- 100687290
- Publisher
- Howard Books
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Edition
- First Howard books trade paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Alabama--Birmingham., Birmingham (Ala.
- ISBN
- 1501118102
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β¦ Synopsis
This riveting true story of courage, strength, and football at the height of racial tension in Birmingham, Alabama, inspired the motion picture Woodlawn , and tells the story of Coach Tandy Gerelds, his running back Tony Nathan, and a high school football game that healed a city.
Woodlawn is soon to be a major motion picture starring Jon Voight, Nic Bishop, and C. Thomas Howell.
In the midst of violent, impassioned racial tensions in Birmingham, Alabama, new football coach, Tandy Gerelds, was struggling to create a winning football team at Woodlawn High School--one of the last schools in Birmingham to integrate. The team he was handed did not have the caliber of players he needed to win--until he saw Tony Nathan run.
But Tony was African American and Coach Gerelds knew that putting him in as running back would be like drawing a target on his own back and the back of his soon-to-be star player. But Coach Gerelds saw something in Tony, and...
β¦ Subjects
Alabama -- Birmingham
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