“To Sir, With Love” was a very risky movie to make in 1967.
Sidney Portier plays a teacher who has been sent to a high school full of white kids. The first video below is a movie trailer that shows several quick scenes to help you understand what he was up against.
That second video shows you the senior prom at the conclusion of that school year.
Remember, this movie was made in 1967, at the very pinnacle of the civil rights debate in the United States. I was a grade-school kid at the time, but old enough to remember those years in spectrographic detail.
Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
