
The new movie Devotion (PG-13) tells the story of Brown, starring Jonathan Majors in the lead role, Christina Jackson as his wife, Daisy, and Glen Powell as his friend, Tom. “You’re taking me to the Bahamas when I get back,” his wife tells him. He did that in flight school, where he became the first African American to complete the training and graduate.Īnd now Brown is being asked to put his life on the line in a growing world conflict in Korea, where the communist world and the free world are in a battle for ideas and land in what is now known as America’s “Forgotten War” – the Korean War. He did that in high school, becoming the first graduate from his school to enroll at a predominantly white college. He’s also black, which makes him a target for racial slurs in 1950 America, merely two years after the military was desegregated.īrown, though, is determined to overcome every obstacle. Jesse Brown is a talented pilot who is rising the ranks within the Navy.
