Plot Summary

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, an unsung Civil Rights legend, grew up in the segregationist South but turned against everything she knew for the truth and paid a price few of us could scarcely imagine. She was attacked, imprisoned, and hunted down for execution but never wavered in her beliefs. "An Ordinary Hero" is the only complete retelling of Joan's entire story with rarely seen images from the Civil Rights Movement along with interviews from some of the most important people of the Movement.