Abstract
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents a brutal and oppressive era rooted in the growing refusal of many Southern states to grant slaves freed in the Civil War equal rights with whites. A life of crushing limitation for Southern Blacks, defined by legal segregation known as "Jim Crow" - after a minstrel routine in which whites painted their faces black - shaped the social, political and legal history of the period. In 1954, with the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, the Jim Crow laws and way of life began to fall.
Program One: Promises Betrayed (1865 - 1896):-
How did Jim Crow begin? As Reconstruction ended, African Americans' efforts to assert their constitutional rights began to be repressed at every turn, betraying the promises of Emancipation. Southern whites were embolden by the North's withdrawal of support for Black access to land, civil and economic rights, and due process in law and politics. Whites passed laws that segregated, divested and disfranchised African-Americans -- laws that were enforced with violence and terror. This episode recounts the Black response by documenting the work of such leaders as anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and the emergence of Booker T. Washington as a national figure.
Program One: Promises Betrayed (1865 - 1896):-
How did Jim Crow begin? As Reconstruction ended, African Americans' efforts to assert their constitutional rights began to be repressed at every turn, betraying the promises of Emancipation. Southern whites were embolden by the North's withdrawal of support for Black access to land, civil and economic rights, and due process in law and politics. Whites passed laws that segregated, divested and disfranchised African-Americans -- laws that were enforced with violence and terror. This episode recounts the Black response by documenting the work of such leaders as anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and the emergence of Booker T. Washington as a national figure.
Subject
African Americans -- Segregation -- History, African Americans -- Civil rights -- History, African Americans -- Social life and customs., African Americans -- Social conditions, United States -- Race relations, Southern States -- Race relations, Segregation -- Southern States -- History, Segregation -- Law and legislation -- Southern States, Racism -- Southern States
Series
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Contributors
Wormser, Richard (series producer), Jersey, Bill (Executive producer), Grant, William R. (Executive producer), Roundtree, Richard (Narrator), Rife, Christopher (Composer), Bacon, Michael (Composer), Levin, Garrett (Editor), Hanake, Tom (Editor), Salomon, Max (Editor), Valette, Pierre (Editor), Dowley, Brian (Director of photography), Jersey, Bill (Director), Pollard, Sam (Producer), California Newsreel (Firm) (Distributor), Quest Productions, VideoLine Productions, Thirteen/WNET New York
Duration
00:55:33 (HH:MM:SS)
Language:
English
Target or Intended Audience
Higher education
Copyright Holder
| Name | California Newsreel |
| Role | Distributor |
| Telephone | 415-284-7800 |
| Address | 500 Third Street, Suite #505, San Francisco, CA 94107-1875 |
| [email protected] |
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