A Binding Truth (documentary film)

They were high school classmates in 1965, who shared a last name but little else. Jimmie had helped integrate the mostly white, mostly wealthy Myers Park High, where he became its first Black football star. That decision swept him into one of North Carolina’s most volatile civil rights cases, ignited by the explosive pairing of football and race.  De Kirkpatrick watched that case unfold and wrote about it in his college essay application: He said it got him into Harvard. But not until 50 years later would a shocking phone call between the two reveal secrets, found buried in church records from the 1860s, that would change their lives. Their story, rooted in the South, is also America’s story – one of slavery’s legacy and our current racial divide.