Woodlawn: One Hope. One Dream. One Way.

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This riveting true story of courage, strength, and football on the height of racial tension in Birmingham, Alabama, inspired the motion picture Woodlawn, and tells the story of Coach Tandy Gerelds, his running back Tony Nathan, and a high school football game that healed a city.

Woodlawn is soon to be an enormous motion picture starring Jon Voight, Nic Bishop, and C. Thomas Howell.

In the midst of violent, impassioned racial tensions in Birmingham, Alabama, new football coach, Tandy Gerelds, used to be struggling to create a winning football team at Woodlawn High School—some of the last schools in Birmingham to integrate. The team he used to be handed didn’t have the caliber of players he needed to win—until he saw Tony Nathan run.

But Tony used to be African American and Coach Gerelds knew that putting him in as running back would be like drawing a target on his own back and the back of his soon-to-be star player. But Coach Gerelds saw something in Tony, and he knew that his decision to let him play used to be about more than football. It used to be about doing what used to be right for the school…and the city.

And soon, the one place in the city where blacks and whites got along used to be on Coach Gerelds’s football team. With the assistance of a new school chaplain, Tony learned to look beyond himself and realized that there used to be more at stake than winning a game.

In 1974, Coach Gerelds’s interracial team made Alabama history drawing 42,000 fans into the stadium to watch them play. It used to be this game that triggered the unity and fortify of the Woodlawn High School Colonels and that after all allowed a city to heal and taught its citizens the best way to love.

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