Au début des années 60, Bob Zellner, jeune homme originaire de l'Alabama, traverse une crise existentielle. Lui, dont le propre grand-père était un membre très actif du Ku Klux Klan, refuse d'assister plus longtemps aux maltraitances et violences subies par la communauté afro-américaine. Inspiré par les écrits et les discours de Rosa Parks ou Martin Luther King Jr, Bob décide, au grand dam de sa famille, de se joindre à la lutte pour l'obtention de l'égalité des droits civiques. Face à la pensée sudiste encore dominante dans cette partie du pays, Bob fait fi du danger et choisit de se lancer dans ce combat à l'issue incertaine...
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00:00June 22, 1961
00:03Can you recall your earliest memories of race?
00:06Grab that bat and you do what's right.
00:08I don't think so.
00:09This is in your blood.
00:10This is where you belong, boy.
00:12You know this movement is about more than just voting rights.
00:15Quit trying to change the game.
00:18You wanna jeopardize your whole life for some grand principle?
00:21Isn't that what they're doing?
00:22So what's gonna happen next?
00:26We continue on.
00:30But we're still breathing.
00:35Some of these old boys around here, they really mean to do you some harm.
00:40Draw the line some way.
00:41You stop right now.
00:42They're gonna kill me.
00:50There's gonna come a time when something really bad happens
00:52and you're gonna have to decide which side you're on.
00:55Not choosing is a choice.
01:00That's not a revolution.
01:03That's not a revolution.
01:04That's not a revolution.
01:05Son, I'm starting to wonder if you all in the apple that you have bitten me.
01:11Ain't you supposed to be non-violent now?
01:13I'm having a real big problem with that right now.
01:15Now hold back down.
01:17Can't stop the snow.
01:18Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada