读者文摘:打破壁垒

4.BREAKING A BARRIER

4.打破壁垒

In 1997, actor Morgan Freeman approached a high school in Charleston, Mississippi,

1997年，演员摩根·弗里曼来到密西西比州查尔斯顿的一所高中，

and offered to pay for its senior prom on one condition:

并提出支付高中毕业舞会的费用，但有一个条件:

It had to be racially integrated, something that had never happened before in Freeman's hometown.

必须允许不同种族的人参加舞会，这在弗里曼的家乡从未发生过。

The school board turned him down.

学校董事会拒绝了他。

But when Freeman returned with filmmaker Paul Saltzman in 2008,

但当2008年，弗里曼与电影制作人保罗·萨尔兹曼一起回归时，

they agreed to hold the first interracial prom in the school's history.

他们同意举办学校历史上第一次跨种族舞会。

Saltzman's documentary Prom Night in Mississippi, which followed the prom's development as well as local resistance to it,

萨尔兹曼的纪录片《密西西比的舞会之夜》关注了舞会的进展以及当地人对舞会的抵制，

was later nominated for a top prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

后来该纪录片提名圣丹斯电影节的最高奖项。