| Film Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Film Review

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Produced, directed, and written by Bill Jersey, Sam Pollard and Richard Wormser. 2002; color, 200 minutes. Distributed by PBS Thirteen/WNET New York.

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow chronicles the emergence of post-Civil War segregation and the successful struggle by civil rights activists and organizations to convince the federal government that such racial separation was unconstitutional. Filmmakers Bill Jersey, Sam Pollard, and Richard Wormser have thirty years of experience documenting the African-American past. This latest work begins with the end of the Civil War and takes viewers to the eve of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Through the entire program, the filmmakers depict ways African Americans have reacted to and openly challenged segregation. Through first-person accounts, interviews with scholars of southern history, photographs, and film footage, viewers get a rich and multifaceted picture of "Jim Crow" America. 1

Four separate episodes recount the black struggle against legal segregation. The first part, "Promises Betrayed: 1865–1896," identifies the challenges facing African Americans as northern support for the black struggle to maintain civil rights slowly descended into apathy in the wake of Reconstruction. The second episode, "Fighting Back: 1896–1917," chronicles the emergence of the black middle class during a time of increasing racial hostility toward African-American social and economic mobility. The third part, "Don't Shout Too Soon: 1918–1940," identifies the organized protests and lawsuits filed between the world wars. Finally, episode four, "Terror and Triumph: 1940–1954," examines the rise of black activism following World War II and the successful legal challenges to segregation that inspired the protests of 1950s and 1960s. . . .

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