‘The Rebel Girls’ film reckons with 60 days, 60 years later

Cast of “The Rebel Girls,” the true story of the 1963 60-day kidnapping of 15 Black girls who protested segregation. by Kia Shaun Walton Celebrated television powerhouse Felicia D. Henderson takes on the film festival scene, debuting the inspiring true story, “The Rebel Girls.” Abducted by white police officers after protesting a racially segregated movie theater in Americus, Georgia, in 1963, 15 Black girls were illegally imprisoned in a Civil War era stockade for 60 days. Isolated from the rest of the world, their families denied any information as to their whereabouts and forced to endure the inhumane conditions of an extended kidnapping, these heroic young women harnessed the power of imagination to fortify their spirits and minds against ruin. “The Rebel Girls” portrays their real life story.& & The short film was accepted into the Cinequest Film Festival, and Henderson, writer, producer and director, hopes to garner enough attention and funding for the project to turn “The Rebel Girls” into a full length feature film and television series. She asserts unequivocally, “This story should be told. It is a story that I think is for everyone on some levels. It is a story that is told from the point...