They don't deserve your tears

Arkansas, September 4, 1957, a start of the school year under the sign of the end of school segregation. The nine African-American teenagers enrolled in the Little Rock high school, until then reserved only for white students, are surrounded by a hysterical crowd. To tell this story, the journalist and historian Thomas Snégaroff goes on stage accompanied by the clarinetist Xavier Bussy who interprets airs by Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington… Music and text marry for a fascinating lecture-show on a fight for human rights, which plunges us back into an America that is both fascinating and terrifying.