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Do-Gooder

Alias(es)

Mrs. Gruwell

Ms. Gruwell
Ms. G
Ma

Occupation

Teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School

Department store salesclerk
Marriott concierge

Powers / Skills

High intelligence

Teaching methods
Willpower

Hobby

Teaching and bonding with her students.

Goals

Help her students improve their academic performances.

Break the color barriers between her students.
Protect Eva Benitez (all succeeded).

Family

Stephen Gruwell (father)

Scott Casey (e

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Freedom Writers

2007 American drama film by Richard LaGravenese

For other uses, see Freedom Writers (disambiguation).

Freedom Writers is a 2007 American biographicaldrama film written and directed by Richard LaGravenese and starring Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey and Mario.

It is based on the 1999 book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell and students who compiled the book out of real diary entries about their lives that they wrote in their English class at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. The movie is also based on the DC program called City at Peace. The title of the movie and book is a play on the term "Freedom Riders," referring to the multiracial civil rights activists who tested the U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the desegregation of interstate buses in 1961.

The idea for the film came from journalist Tracey Durning, who made a documentary about Erin Gruwell for the ABC News program Primetime Live. Durning served as co-executive producer of the film. The film was dedicated to the

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Erin Gruwell is the fiercely passionate educator who was inspired to become a teacher by watching the infamous L.A. rioting sparked by one of the most inexplicable jury verdicts in American history. By the following year, she finds herself teaching English at the racially diverse Woodrow Wilson High School. Upon being floored by the realization that many students are ignorant or misinformed about the history of the Holocaust, she launches a curriculum devoted to teaching tolerance and cultural understanding.

The Freedom Writers are comprised of 150 of Gruwell’s students representing a cross section of diverse backgrounds initially self-segregate according to racial and ethnic similarities. As Gruwell commences her program of teaching tolerance and understanding as part of the whole curriculum package, these superficial differences begin to fade in the wake of realizing they share so many social problems which cut across their biases wi

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