Three Days at Foster (2013) - The A.V. Club
In the 1950s and '60s, the epic battle to end institutional racism reverberated across the South. Many of the pivotal mileposts in the civil rights movement happened in Alabama, where segregation's hold was especially severe and unforgiving. One event came to symbolize Southern resistance: Segregationist Governor George Wallace's stand 'in the schoolhouse door' at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. Using Foster Auditorium, the site of Wallace's stand, as a symbol of change across five decades, THREE DAYS AT FOSTER focuses on the pioneer athletes who subse...