Historical story of the most politically explosive football game in history, the 1956 Sugar Bowl.

Nineteen Fifty-Five is a year of awakening to America's bitter history of racism-in Brown v. Board of Education the Supreme Court insists that schools must integrate "with all deliberate speed"; the murder of Emmett Till and acquittal of the murderers transfixes the nation; Rosa Parks is arrested for sitting on a bus. In December, by coincidence or convergence, a football game and two reluctant heroes spark a media firestorm that helps ignite the Civil Rights Movement, while a brewing bus boycott brings a young preacher to national prominence.