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Take a Giant Step
First aired on Dec 1, 1959
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Genres: Drama

This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.

Featured Cast: click image to view more
Johnny Nash | Spencer Scott
Estelle Hemsley | Grandmother Martin
Ruby Dee | Christine
Frederick O'Neal | Lem Scott
Beah Richards | May Scott
Ellen Holly | The Girl in the Bar
Featured Crew
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Philip Leacock | Director
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Louis S. Peterson | Screenplay
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Julius J. Epstein | Screenplay
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Louis S. Peterson | Theatre Play
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Julius J. Epstein | Producer
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Jack Marshall | Original Music Composer