Abolition : broken promises / a BBC-TV production in association with Arts and Entertainment Network and Lionheart Television International Inc. ; written and produced by Mark Hayhurst.
Publisher:
Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
Copyright Date:
1998
Description:
1 videocassette (50 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Narrator, Juliet Stevenson. Features comments by: Dr. John Hope Franklin, Duke University; Dr. Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Eric Foner, Columbia University; and Dr. Joel Williamson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Originally produced in 1992 as an episode of the BBC-TV television program, Timewatch. Distributed under license from BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
Summary:
This program presents a grim picture of the black experience after slavery through the eyes of those who experienced it and their progeny. Topics include the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision; Northern political abandonment of blacks; the Ku Klux Klan; failure of the post-war land-distribution act; the role of industry; the deliberately cultivated image of black males as criminals and rapists; and the perpetuation of Jim Crow well into the 1950s.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)40676372
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.