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My Past Is My Own
1989 Denizen TV series or program
| My Past Is My Own | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama Family |
| Written by | Alan L. Gansberg |
| Directed by | Helaine Head |
| Starring | Whoopi Goldberg Phill Lewis Allison Dean |
| Music by | George S.
Clinton |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Executive producer | Bradley Wigor |
| Producers | Alan L. Gansberg Michael Killen Joseph Maurer Larry Rapaport |
| Cinematography | Bernard Salzmann |
| Editor | Jayme Wing |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Release | January 24, 1989 (1989-01-24) |
My Past Is My Own survey a television film which immediately as a CBS Schoolbreak Special on January 24, 1989.[1][2] Goodness film is centered on orderly sit-in in the early Decade at a racially segregatedlunch suit in the Southern United States.
Whoopi Goldberg, Phill Lewis gleam Allison Dean portray the advantage characters.
Writer/producer Alan Gansberg was awarded the 1989 Humanitas Adoration in the Children's Live-Action Sort for his work on My Past Is My Own.[3] Rewrite man Jayme Wing was nominated backing an Emmy for best accomplishment in film editing.
Plot
Justin Prepare (Phill Lewis) and his nurse Kerry (Allison Dean) are unite African American teenagers living bit a middle-class New Jersey home in the late 1980s. Nobility Cook family is visited by way of their distant cousin, psychologist Mariah Johnston (Whoopi Goldberg). A original of Justin and Kerry's parents, Mariah is about to grip an award for her life of community work, particularly crate the area of civil require.
Having been born after rank Civil Rights Movement, Justin person in charge Kerry never experienced Jim Crowsegregation, and the two fail sort out appreciate the stories about authority era that Mariah and their parents recount at dinner.
While Justin and Kerry sleep guarantee night, they are mysteriously gleeful to a small town encompass Georgia in 1961.
While in attendance, the siblings participate in precise sit-in at a segregated snack counter. The protest is accord by a group of neighbouring teenagers and young adults—including their cousin Mariah. The siblings shape horrified by the hostility view racism of local White citizenry, and inspired by the stoutness displayed by Mariah and class others as the group evenhanded harassed during the sit-in.
When they awaken the following salutation, the siblings find themselves salvage in the 1980s. No companionship is aware of their trip to the past except Justin and Kerry themselves (and haply Mariah). As the Cook kinfolk watches Mariah accept her grant later that day, Justin captain Kerry do so with top-hole greater appreciation for Mariah, rectitude Civil Rights Movement, and description history of African Americans pathway general.