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4.BREAKING A BARRIER
4.打破壁壘
In 1997, actor Morgan Freeman approached a high school in Charleston, Mississippi,
1997年，演員摩根·弗里曼來到密西西比州查爾斯頓的一所高中，
and offered to pay for its senior prom on one condition:
并提出支付高中畢業(yè)舞會的費用，但有一個條件:
It had to be racially integrated, something that had never happened before in Freeman's hometown.
必須允許不同種族的人參加舞會，這在弗里曼的家鄉(xiāng)從未發(fā)生過。
The school board turned him down.
學(xué)校董事會拒絕了他。
But when Freeman returned with filmmaker Paul Saltzman in 2008,
但當(dāng)2008年，弗里曼與電影制作人保羅·薩爾茲曼一起回歸時，
they agreed to hold the first interracial prom in the school's history.
他們同意舉辦學(xué)校歷史上第一次跨種族舞會。
Saltzman's documentary Prom Night in Mississippi, which followed the prom's development as well as local resistance to it,
薩爾茲曼的紀(jì)錄片《密西西比的舞會之夜》關(guān)注了舞會的進展以及當(dāng)?shù)厝藢ξ钑牡种疲?/div>
was later nominated for a top prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
后來該紀(jì)錄片提名圣丹斯電影節(jié)的最高獎項。
