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Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious, idealistic teacher, accepts Beaumont County South Carolina's school board superintendent's offer to teach the all-black kids of the pauper fishery community on Yamacraw Island. Staffless 'head' mistress Brown incarnates stupidity and blind rule obedience, her didactic skills consisting in scolding and spanking her student...
Julianne Nicholson
Barbara
Robert John Burke
Colonel Conroy
Robert Clotworthy
Self - Narrator
LaTanya Richardson Jackson
Edna