Filmmaker Tyrone Young, on Wednesday, January 6, 2010. The Orlando filmmaker hopes to change the way African-American children think of their ancestors -- and themselves -- with a film that focuses not on oppression but the inventive and creative contributions by blacks during the Civil War. He hopes to get through to some of the many Florida school districts that a task force on African-American history says have failed to follow a state law requiring black history to be taught.

Tyrone Young

RICARDO RAMIREZ BUXEDA/ORLANDO SENTINEL / January 5, 2010

Filmmaker Tyrone Young, on Wednesday, January 6, 2010. The Orlando filmmaker hopes to change the way African-American children think of their ancestors -- and themselves -- with a film that focuses not on oppression but the inventive and creative contributions by blacks during the Civil War. He hopes to get through to some of the many Florida school districts that a task force on African-American history says have failed to follow a state law requiring black history to be taught.