THE NICKEL BOYS

As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the word s of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by hi s grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, o ne innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission sta...[Read more]