Research Catalog

Title

Rise and fall of Jim Crow audio and moving image collection : 800 items.

Publication

[2002]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Kennedy, Stetson.
• Evers, Charles, 1922-2020.
• Kirksey, Henry J., 1915-2005.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Description

• 774 videocassettes
• 26 audiocassettes

Summary

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and other states, starting in the 1870s and 1880s. Jim Crow laws and Jim Crow state constitutional provisions mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow" is a four-part television series that tells the story of the African-American struggle for freedom during this period of segregation in the South from 1880 to 1954. The series aired on PBS in 2002. The programs were produced, directed and written by the team of Richard Wormser, Bill Jersey and Sam Pollard. The four episodes are organized chronologically. The central theme of Episode 1 (1865-1896) illustrates the conflict between the efforts of African Americans to achieve the promises of emancipation of full civil and political rights and the demand by whites for segregation and political exclusion. Episode 2 (1896-1917) explores the dramatic rise of a successful Black middle class and the determination of white supremacists to destroy this fledging Black political power. The third episode (1918-1940) chronicles the years between World Wars I and II, a time of increased mob violence, lynchings, and massacres of Blacks. Episode 4 (1940-1954) examines the surge of Black activism that occurred after World War II.

Subject

• Dobbs, John Wesley, 1882-1961
• Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950
• Kennedy, Stetson
• Evers, Charles, 1922-2020
• Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931
• Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
• Cunningham, Evelyn, 1916-2010
• Stoney, George C
• Kirksey, Henry J., 1915-2005
• Robert Russa Moton High School (Farmville (Va.))
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
• Rise and fall of Jim Crow (Television program)
• Lynching > United States > 1940-1950
• Lynching > Georgia
• Lynching > Southern States
• Race relations
• African American civil rights workers
• African American historians
• African American students > Virginia > Farmville
• Journalists > United States
• African Americans > Civil rights
• African Americans > Education (Secondary)
• African Americans > History > 1877-1964
• African Americans > Segregation > Southern States
• African Americans > Social conditions
• African Americans > Segregation
• African American intellectuals
• Television > Production and direction > United States
• World War, 1939-1945 > Race relations
• Mound Bayou (Miss.)
• United States > Race relations

Note

• The collection consists of 26 audio recordings and 774 moving image recordings that document the production of the television series, and most notably consists of interviews conducted with journalists and academics many of whom lived in the South during the Jim Crow era and who provide an intellectual and historical background of the Jim Crow era, plus 4 boxes of transcripts and other printed material.

Source (note)

• Richard Wormser

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: Rise and fall of Jim Crow archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Rise and fall of Jim Crow documentary research collection, 1995-2002. (Sc MG 742). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division.

Call Number

Sc MIRS Rise 2004-28

OCLC

1183426459

Title

Rise and fall of Jim Crow audio and moving image collection : 800 items.

Publisher

[2002]

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Rise and fall of Jim Crow archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Rise and fall of Jim Crow documentary research collection, 1995-2002. (Sc MG 742). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division.

Added Author

Kennedy, Stetson.

Evers, Charles, 1922-2020.

Kirksey, Henry J., 1915-2005.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research Call Number

Sc MIRS Rise 2004-28