Fact-based account of the only senior (Morris Chestnut) among the nine students who integrated Arkansas' Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Grandfather: Ossie Davis. Daisy Bates: CCH Pounder. Mrs. Green: Tina Lifford. Mr. Loomis: Gary Grubbs. Rev. Lawson: Avery Brooks. Mrs. Wilson: Ruby Dee. Marcus: Omar Gooding. Directed by Eric Laneuville.