Marva Collins was an influential educator and civil rights activist known for her unique teaching method. The film depicts Collins starting her own school in Chicago to provide equal access to quality education for African American students. It stars Cicely Tyson as Collins using her signature teaching approach focused on phonics, reading, math, English, and classics to help students succeed. The film also shows Collins motivating her students and addressing challenges with courage, determination, passion, and compassion.

1. Submitted By:
Jeraldine V. Hoylar
BSEM-4
Submitted To:
Rodelio B. Pasion, PH.,
D.

2. THE MARVA
COLLINS
STORY (1981)

6. MAIN CAST
Cicely Tyson as Marva Collins
Civil Rights Activist, Educator (1936–2015)
Born in Monroeville, Alabama on August
31, 1936, Marva Collins became one of the
most influential teachers and education
activists of the 20th century. Working to
gain equal access to quality education for
African-American students, she started her
own school in Chicago and founded a style
of education that came to be known as the
Collins Method. The Collins Method, as it
came to be known, centered on phonics,
math, reading, English and the classics.
Marva Collins died of natural causes on June 24,
2015 in South Carolina. She was 78 years old.

7. ALSO STARRING:
Morgan Freeman as Clarence Collins, husband of
Marva.
Collins children:
Mashaune Hardy as Cindy Collins
Brett Bouldin as Patrick Collins
Samuel Muhammad Jr. as Eric Collins
 Kelly Crosby as Tina Boland
-shy girl
 Rodrick F. Wimberly as Martin Luther Jones, the
boy who wants to be a pilot or a judge.

8. Tonada Leavy as Clarissa Lester, a chubby girl
with a brilliant skills in literacy.
Duke Thorbs as Eddie Banbower, his mother
dissolution of being on attended
Dianne Kirksey as Cynthia Rawls
Dick Sasso as State Examiner
Edward Asner as Narrator (voice)

9. These are the following quotation by
Marva Collins from the movie which
shows courage, motivation,
determination, success, passion ,self-
confidence and compassion.

11. Trust

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