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Writer-producer Terry Chase Chenowith and his production banner Back Fence Prods. have snagged film rights to Joe H. Harless novel "Black Warrior's Curse."

Tome is a fictionalized account of violence amid the work of the civil rights movement in the Deep South in the 1950s and '60s as viewed from the prospective of a young white man and an African-American of the same age, both from Alabama. Both are changed by the riots and church bombings in Birmingham, "Bloody Sunday" in Selma and Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

Chenowith will pen the script. Most recently, he wrote and produced WWII romancer "Beautiful Dreamer," starring Brooke Langton and Colin Egglesfield.

Chenowith's credits include "Undertaking Betty" and "Shortcut to Happiness," and he directed, produced and scripted "Friends in the Country" and the television show "Nashville Nights." He's currently producing "One of Our Own" with producers Jack Robinson and Silver Tree as well as "The Magic Shoes."