Black Privilege. White Power. Proof Of Concept

After graduating high school, a young Smith College student joins up with an activist group to fight for civil rights in the Jim Crow era South and ends up taking part in one of the great protest movements in American history, inspiring her peers and strangers along the way.

BLACK PRIVILEGE. WHITE POWER. is a deeply compelling and ambitious period political drama that explores themes of justice, friendship, love, loss and integrity in a period New England (Massachusetts) and American South setting (Alabama, Mississippi). The based on true nature of the script makes the setting necessary to tell the story with authenticity but it also works well on its own merits. Even for viewers unfamiliar with the details of the Freedom Riders or the march on Selma will understand that in that time in the South, acts of tremendous violence were frequently and casually committed against people of color and their allies. POSY and FANNIE LOU as the two leads are each exceptionally sympathetic figures with clear motivation and well defined wants and needs. The audience will naturally root for them along their respective journeys as they each work towards their goals, including Fannie Lou's goal of merely surviving. The action sequences/violence feels grounded, gritty and tragically accurate and should get pulses racing. The ending, while again necessary to tell the tale accurately, still comes off as earned, rewarding and satisfying. The script showcases in great detail the history and legacy of those that have fought for civil rights at a time when the political climate may need similar activists to rise again.