Anthony Hemingway's epic tale of the Tuskegee Airmen will be out in 2012!!

See previous posting of some of the actors who signed on in 2009

You can review the trailers and see a list of the other actors in the movie.

The northern defeat in the Civil War lead to re-construction of the southern government. From 1868 to 1878. Black legislators were being included as Alabama lawmakers. They were represented in various counties to enact, modify and establish new laws that would include rights for all people. However, the white legislators were never comfortable with the change and Northern whites grew weary of the constant battles with the Southern whites about the issue of Black civil rights and abandoned their efforts to assist the cause. Thus, the Southern whites came up with "Jim Crow" laws, between 1878 and 1965, to continue to disenfranchise the Black people--separate but equal.

The early Black legislators in Macon County, Alabama were:

James H. Alston - 1868
Henry St. Clair - 1870
George Patterson - 1872
A. W. Johnson - 1874

The last Black re-construction legislator in Alabama was George English of Wilcox County in 1878.

A local lawmaker couldn't remember the exact title of a classic Sam Cooke song, but he came close as he saluted a group of black legislators who served during Reconstruction.

"Somewhere there's a song about 'It's a long time coming,' and it has been for the families of these great men," state Rep. Thad McClammy, D-Montgom­ery, said during a ceremony outside the state Capitol on Sat­urday. Read More