Gramblings White Tiger

Interesting Time capsule - As far as I know, this film and the volatile 1970 pic ",Halls of Anger", are the only films I know of that deal with the pressures of White students who integrate all-Black schools. This is an account of Jim Gregory s integration of Grambling College s football team in 1968 and the predictable problems he faced. However, the aspect of the racial problems he faces dissapear midway into the film and it becomes a typical go-team football flick. It s valuable as being a rare and fairly accurate look into life at a Black College (several years before ",School Daze", and A Different World",). However, Bruce Jenner looked WAY too old to be beleivable as an 18-year old college freshman and hamminess abounds, particulrly Geroge Stanford Brown as the Black militant student who makes life rough for Gregory. Show this to a social studies class and see what they think.