Filmmaker Marco Williams from "Banished" (2007)

Marco Williams's I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education was the recipient of the 2005 Beacon Award, and his MLK Boulevard: The Concrete Dream won the 2004 National Association of Black Journalists' Salute to Excellence Award. His Two Towns of Jasper, which screened at Sundance in 2002, earned a Peabody Award and the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton in 2004. In 2006, Williams's Freedom Summer was broadcast as part of the Emmy Award-winning History Channel series Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America.