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 Four: Terror and Triumph (1940 - 1954):-
Episode four examines the surge of Black activism that took place after World War II. Black veterans returned from the war determined to achieve the same rights at home that they had fought for in Europe in a Jim Crow army. One vet, Medgar Evers, became an organizer for the Mississippi NAACP; he was assassinated for his work in 1963. In Georgia, John Wesley Dobbs, head of the Black Masons, organized the first voter-registration drives. Predictably, whites again answered Black demands for equality with violence. But this time, President Truman responded with a civil rights initiative and integrated the Army. Southern Democrats split from the Democratic Party forming the States Rights Party.
But slowly the national mood was changing. Barriers fell in sports and entertainment. Here, for the first time on film, those who had been high school students in Farmville, VA reconstruct their historic walk-out and protest against segregated and inadequate education. They galvanized the community to join in an NAACP lawsuit that was combined with four other NAACP suits across the country to become Brown v. Board of Education. The landmark Brown decision irreparably breached the legal basis for Jim Crow, and through that opening soon poured the legions of the Civil Rights Movement.
Program Four: Terror and Triumph (1940 - 1954):-
Episode four examines the surge of Black activism that took place after World War II. Black veterans returned from the war determined to achieve the same rights at home that they had fought for in Europe in a Jim Crow army. One vet, Medgar Evers, became an organizer for the Mississippi NAACP; he was assassinated for his work in 1963. In Georgia, John Wesley Dobbs, head of the Black Masons, organized the first voter-registration drives. Predictably, whites again answered Black demands for equality with violence. But this time, President Truman responded with a civil rights initiative and integrated the Army. Southern Democrats split from the Democratic Party forming the States Rights Party.
But slowly the national mood was changing. Barriers fell in sports and entertainment. Here, for the first time on film, those who had been high school students in Farmville, VA reconstruct their historic walk-out and protest against segregated and inadequate education. They galvanized the community to join in an NAACP lawsuit that was combined with four other NAACP suits across the country to become Brown v. Board of Education. The landmark Brown decision irreparably breached the legal basis for Jim Crow, and through that opening soon poured the legions of the Civil Rights Movement.
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), Pollard, Sam (Producer), Jersey, Bill (Writer), Jersey, Bill (Director), Wormser, Richard (Director), Wormser, Richard (Writer), California Newsreel (Firm) (Distributor), Quest Productions, VideoLine Productions, Thirteen/WNET New York
Duration
00:56:02 (HH:MM:SS)
Language:
English
Target or Intended Audience
Higher education
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