The rise and fall of Jim Crow / a co-production of Quest Productions, VideoLine Productions and Thirteen/WNET New York.

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Offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents the context in which the laws of segregation known as the "Jim Crow" system originated and developed.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jersey, Bill (Author, Director, Producer), Wormser, Richard, 1933- (Author, Director, Producer)
Corporate Authors: Quest Productions, VideoLine (Firm), WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Other Authors: Pollard, Sam (Producer), Roundtree, Richard, 1942-2023
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [2004?] ©2002.
Subjects:
African Americans > Segregation > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Segregation > Southern States > History.
Segregation > Law and legislation > Southern States.
Racism > Southern States.
Civil rights movements > United States.
Documentary television programs.
United States > Race relations.
Southern States > Race relations.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (224 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
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Summary:
Offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents the context in which the laws of segregation known as the "Jim Crow" system originated and developed.
Note:Videodisc release of a 2002 television production.
Videorecording.
Call Number:Video R
E185.61 .R57 2004 VideoDVD
Awards:Winner of the Peabody Award and the IDA Achievement Award, 2003.
Credits:Producers, Sam Pollard (ep. 1, 4), Richard Wormser (ep. 2, 4), Bill Jersey (ep. 3-4) ; directors, Bill Jersey (ep. 1, 3-4), Richard Wormser (ep. 2, 4) : writers, Bill Jersey (ep. 1, 3-4), Richard Wormser (2, 4) ; narrator, Richard Roundtree ; series producer, Richard Wormser ; music, Christopher Rife, Michael Bacon ; editors, Garrett Levin, Tom Hanake, Max Salomon, Pierre Valette ; director of photography, Brian Dowley.
System Details:DVD.