An Ordinary Hero

The True Story of Civil Rights Activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland

This is the amazing true story of one woman who helped change the world. By the time she was 19 years old, legendary Civil Rights Activist, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland participated in over three dozen sit-ins and protests and was put on death row in Mississippi's notorious Parchman Penitentiary with other Freedom Riders. She was involved in one of the most famous and violent sit-ins of the Movement at the Jackson Woolworth lunch counter and helped plan and organize the March on Washington.

AN ORDINARY HERO tells her story, reminding us that what is right and what is easy are rarely the same thing.

Winner of Best Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature at the Oxford Film Festival.

"Amazing, powerful, elegant, poetic." - Gregory Howard, writer of Remember the Titans