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Ages: 10 - 18
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Who Was Jim Crow?
From pbslearningmedia.org, produced by Quest Productions, VideoLine Productions and Educational Broadcasting Corporation
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Prior to the Civil War, in the early part of the 19th century, a white performer created the dancing and singing simpleton character "Jim Crow." The character mocked black people while entertaining white audiences by playing on white bigotry and raci...sm. Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, after four million blacks became free, a racial apartheid occurred in the United States. The name “Jim Crow” became synonymous with this period in American history. (1:20)
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January 30, 2012 at 11:28 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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The Atlanta Riot
From pbslearningmedia.org, produced by Quest Productions, VideoLine Productions and Educational Broadcasting Corporation
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Although a prosperous African-American middle class had emerged in Atlanta by the early 1900s, it was understood by both whites and blacks that Atlanta was a tense and highly segregated city. In 1906, on the heels of the Thomas Dixon play The Clansme...n, newspapers began falsely reporting assaults of white women by black men, leading to the Atlanta Riot. This segment from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crowdescribes the events leading up to the riot, and its impact on the black civil rights leaders Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois and Walter White. (7mins)
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February 19, 2012 at 03:36 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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This slide show video is accompanied by some text and images. "Frustration of some Americans over the policy of segregation and resistance by other Americans to integration eventually gave rise to the acts of civil disobedience that would mark the be...ginning of the civil rights movement. In demonstration after demonstration one or more individuals would inspire others to take a stand against a system based on prejudice". (03:45)
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January 4, 2010 at 09:46 PM
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Ages: 12 - 16
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African American civil rights workers and elected officials recall the indignities and brutality of racial discrimination and their personal experiences in winning the right to share political power. Interwoven are images that enhance the drama of th...ese heartbreaking and courageous narratives.
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November 17, 2009 at 09:02 PM
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Ages: 12 - 16
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Though courageous in battle from the Revolutionary War on, African-American soldiers have seldom received recognition for their patriotism. In personal testimony, interwoven with compelling images, African-American soldiers speak out about their prof...ound disillusionment, compounded by the neglect and derision many Americans offered them at the close of the Vietnam War.
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November 17, 2009 at 09:01 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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This video clip from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow identifies two major leaders in the black community during the era of Jim Crow: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. By the turn of the 20th century, Washington was an incredibly popular figure w...ho, among many accomplishments, had become the leader of the Tuskegee Institute and started the National Business League. Washington maintained that African Americans could achieve economic progress and spiritual growth but only by accepting the confines of Jim Crow. Du Bois, on the other hand, attacked Washington’s methodology publicly and emphasized the importance of intellectual rigor and equality for African Americans in all aspects of American life, with no exceptions. Nowhere were his verbal assaults on Washington as strong as in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. (3:30)
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February 7, 2012 at 11:27 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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Charles Hamilton Houston, former dean of Howard University’s law school and chief legal counsel for the NAACP, believed discrimination in education was symbolic of many forms of discriminations facing African Americans in society. This video shows ho...w Houston documented the separate and unequal conditions existing for white and black students in the South and prepared the way for the precedent-setting Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. (2:19)
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February 8, 2012 at 12:11 AM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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In 1902, during the worst years of Jim Crow segregation, Charlotte Hawkins Brown founded the Palmer Memorial Institute in North Carolina. This segment from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow shows how, despite pressures to give African American youth only... an industrial education, Brown fought the system and strived to provide her students with the best academic education available. (5mins)
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February 8, 2012 at 12:19 AM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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This video segment from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow highlights the struggle to desegregate schools in the era of Jim Crow. In 1951, in the town of Farmville, Virginia, students at Robert Russa Moton High School called a strike, asserting their oppo...sition to the deplorable conditions of their school compared to the white-only school. Led by the student activist Barbara Johns, students held a school strike, marched into the superintendent’s office, and demanded a better school. When the NAACP heard of the students’ cause, the organization provided support, and ultimately added the Farmville case to their challenge against Jim Crow. (11:51)
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February 7, 2012 at 11:14 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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This video from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow examines the factors that lead to violent and irreparable change in Wilmington, North Carolina. In the years following the Civil War, Wilmington, with a prosperous and growing African-American middle clas...s, was a city that exemplified peaceful co-existence between the races. But in the 1898 election, when the white-dominated Democratic party regained power throughout the state, blacks in Wilmington not only lost their civil rights, but also were victims of a terrible massacre staged by angry white mobs. (4:14)
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February 19, 2012 at 11:28 PM
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