Part I: “HORACE T. WARD AND THE DESEGREGATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA”
PART II: “THE AFTERMATH OF THE DESEGREGATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA AND HORACE T. WARD’S CLIMB TO THE FEDERAL BENCH”
“Foot Soldier for Equal Justice” brings together archival materials and interviews to tell the story of higher education desegregation at the University of Georgia and in the University of Georgia System. The documentary tells the story of desegregation through the eyes of Horace T. Ward, a native of LaGrange, Georgia, who became the first African American to sue for admission to an all-white college in Georgia. Ward, who was denied admission, subsequently was admitted to and graduated from Northwestern University Law School in Chicago. Ironically, he later became counsel, along with well-known civil rights attorney Donald Hollowell, in the 1961 legal case that successfully gained the admission of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to the University of Georgia and resulted in the school’s desegregation.
-Documentary Films, the Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights
http://footsoldier.uga.edu/documentary-films/