Long Time Coming – Generations Project

LONG TIME COMING tells a timely and important story about a 1955 Little League baseball championship in Orlando, Florida. One of the first integrated Little League games, this event marked a turning point moment for racial integration in the South, and made a powerful impression on the young players on both the white and the black teams. This award-winning documentary film brings the surviving players, now in their 70s, back together to revisit this critical moment in our nation’s history, exploring what has and hasn’t changed in the years since. LONG TIME COMING demonstrates how sports can inspire personal and social change. Connect with your own family legacy, document and share the experience of older generations, and add to the collective story of America. Join the conversation and add your story of the history of civil rights in America. Use your phone to record an interview with an elder who lived through the segregation era. You can share your family’s civil rights story as part of The Great Thanksgiving Listen, a national movement that empowers young people, and people of all ages, to contribute to the oral history of the United States by recording an interview with an elder using the free StoryCorps App: bit.ly/storycorpsdownload and using keyword MyLTCStory.