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Promises Betrayed (1865-1896)
(The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow series)
VHS
56 minutes
E185.61 .R57 2002 Pr.1
How did Jim Crow begin? As Reconstruction ended, betraying the promises of Emancipation, African Americans' efforts to assert their constitutional rights, began to be repressed at every turn by Southern whites embolden by the North's withdrawal its support for black aspirations for land, civil and political rights, and due process. Whites succeeded in passing laws that segregated and disfranchised African-Americans -- laws that were enforced with violence and terror. This episode recounts the Black response by documenting the work of such leaders as anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and the emergence of Booker T. Washington as a national figure.
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