April 8th, 1975 in Los Angeles, California. A massive thunderstorm swamped the Academy Awards, inundating the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and its Hollywood elites with rain and misery. This particular Oscar night, however, would become better-known for the fireworks inside the theater, the culmination of a decade of protests paralleling a divided America.Some were relatively innocuous, like Rod Steiger proclaiming "We shall overcome!" after winning 1967's Best Actor for In the Heat of the Night. Others were more controversial, as when Marlon Brando sent Indian ...