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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Season 1 Episode 3
Emancipation ended slavery, but not its legacy.
Mob violence, lynchings, and massacres of blacks increase between World Wars I and II, and three members of the fledgling NAACP lead campaigns to confront these threats. W.E.B. Du Bois called for veterans of World War I to "return fighting." Walter White went among the lynchers to discover the truth behind the rapes and insurrections allegedly committed by blacks, and Charles Hamilton Houston designed and successfully applied a legal strategy that challenged Jim Crow and resulted in the famous "Brown vs. Board of Education" decision, which desegregated public schools in 1954.
- Jahr: 2002
- Land: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
- Stichwort: southern usa, racial segregation, lynching, white supremacists, jim crow laws, civil rights movement
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- Besetzung: Richard Roundtree