Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week the quaint square around the courthouse was jammed with satellite trucks and bristling with security. Dozens of uniformed police officers accompanied jurors, and plainclothes Texas Rangers with Secret Service-style earphones encircled the witness stand, even as police helicopters swept the skies. And, of course, no one could get into the courtroom without going through those machines. Local officials feared a repeat of the marches that rocked the town after the death of James Byrd Jr. last summer. On the day of his funeral, both the Ku Klux Klan and the New Black Panther Party marched...
...Harold Sylvester played for St. Augustine in the first integrated basketball game in New Orleans history. He wrote Passing Glory based on the story of that secret game, and his movie is showing this month as a TNT Original production. The Harvard Crimson was able to speak with Mr. Sylvester about his experiences writing about this turbulent time in American history...
Harold Sylvester: Yes, I was in New Orleans doing a campaign for Rusty Palmer, a college classmate of mine. His PR man was talking about this secret basketball game in New Orleans he had always heard about. When I told him I had actually played in that game, Rusty and I decided to bring the story to the public. We called up another classmate of mine, Mike Henry, and decided to get the story onto the screen...
Passing Glory is based on the true story of a secret championship game between St. Augustine and Jesuit that took place in 1965. Writer Harold Sylvester played in that game, and St. Augustine's star player, Travis Porter, is based on his experiences (see accompanying interview). Sylvester's connection to the story gives Passing Glory a local, personal feel--the Civil Rights movement as seen through a vignette of New Orleans history...
Unsatisfied, Travis forces the question and challenges Jesuit to a secret match outside of official league play. When Verrett and Grant ask the players' families about the possibility of going through with the secret game, it becomes clear that neither side can resist the chance to prove themselves the better team. The game takes place, therefore, because the chance for a truly equal competition overrides the teams' fears and mistrust of one another...