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 Two: Fighting Back (1896 - 1917) :-
Episode two illustrates the early rise of a successful Black middle class and the determination of white supremacists to destroy fledgling Black political power. The growing oppression had a profound effect on a professor at Atlanta University, W.E.B. Du Bois, and a teenage mail carrier named Walter White. Both would become leaders of a newly founded organization to fight Jim Crow: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The episode ends with the violence at home giving way to warfare abroad as thousands of Black Americans depart for battle in World War I.
Program Two: Fighting Back (1896 - 1917) :-
Episode two illustrates the early rise of a successful Black middle class and the determination of white supremacists to destroy fledgling Black political power. The growing oppression had a profound effect on a professor at Atlanta University, W.E.B. Du Bois, and a teenage mail carrier named Walter White. Both would become leaders of a newly founded organization to fight Jim Crow: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The episode ends with the violence at home giving way to warfare abroad as thousands of Black Americans depart for battle in World War I.
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), Wormser, Richard (Director), Wormser, Richard (Producer), Wormser, Richard (Writer), 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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