Take a Giant Step
1959This 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.
Acted in
Johnny Nash
as Spencer Scott
Estelle Hemsley
as Grandmother Martin
Ruby Dee
as Christine
Frederick O'Neal
as Lem Scott
Beah Richards
as May Scott
Ellen Holly
as The Girl in the Bar
Paulene Myers
as Violet
Royce Wallace
as Rose Thompson
Frances Foster
as Poppy
Roy Glenn
as Minister
Dee Pollock
as Tony
Bill Walker
as Frank
Bernie Hamilton
as Bar Sharpie
Delmar Erickson
as Bobby
Sherman Raskin
as Alan