https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/450892cd-c433-4e76-97d9-899a6bde6a98 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This Civil Rights era film "Epitaph for Jim Crow" takes a look at what conditions would have to be met, for the "Jim Crow" era to be considered over. Jim Crow refers to laws that were introduced in the Southern U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation. The film shows the social and cultural role of Black Americans in the USA as the country began to work to recover from slavery; and soon the segregation era. It also attempts to explain the various beliefs surrounding segregation and racism in the South as viewed by the northern civilians. Progress in political and economic development is covered, as well as the unfortunate digression in the South due to a blatant white supremacist culture; and an examination of what must be done to achieve a new reality. The film opens with a segregation era sign reading Colored entrance (:09). This film was created with Thomas Pettigrew; the Assistant Professor of Social Psychology (:24). The first chapter details the rise of segregation beginning at the end of slavery. Jim Crow style signs fill the screens (:47). Subversive; though existent, northern racism is discussed (1:12). Imperial Laundry advertises catering to ‘white's only’ (1:19). The origin of the name Jim Crow is explained (1:38). We go to Washington DC, 1868 (1:57) for the case of Kate Brown; an employee of the US Senate. In February she was violently thrown from the all whites train car of the Washington and Alexandria Railway Train (3:17). The jury awarded Kate in her favor, making it a landmark case. The railway would defend themselves on a separate but equal stance 28 years before this idea was made temporarily constitutional. This case focused on the meaning of the congressional charters to the railroads (3:58) which denied exclusion of riders on the cars based upon skin tone. The Supreme Court ruled in Brown’s favor (4:37). The Warren Court case ruling of 1954 (4:53) stated separate racial facilities can never be equal. African American students study in class (5:01).  Rosa Park's compelling story begins in the streets of Montgomery Alabama of 1955 (5:09). This case tested the legality of segregation. Buses expected the African American riders to give up their seats to on boarding white men when it was too full. While the other African American riders obliged, Park’s refused (5:17). She was placed under arrest (5:56), tried and found guilty. The case was appealed. The Montgomery Bus Boycott sprang from this in December of 1955 (7:24). Martin Luther King (7:31) delivers a speech. This protest threw him into the limelight. Civil rights marches pulsated through the country (8:04). The common mentality among the general Caucasian population at the time was denial or over-simplification (10:39). The narrator turns to explain historical, cultural, social and situational causes of racism. Slavery and race relations issues in other countries such as Brazil are mentioned in comparison (12:45). Another example (13:29) shows the confusion over race relations in the south from the northern perspective. An aerial shot of Birmingham follows (15:58); highlighting the Steel Center. The city was polarized by the Rosa Parks case (16:30). This polarization challenged an over simplified viewpoint that all of the south was racist. Harry Goldman's vertical plan for desegregation is heard (17:29). The character of the southerner is put to question as the personality approach is discussed (19:25). The narrator uses social pressures and learned behavior acquired from relatives and peers to explain southern bigotry.  The scholar C. Vann Woodward's observation on race relations is heard (20:29). Many white Americans of the North still balked at the idea of African Americans purchasing homes in their neighborhood showing an overall ingrained racist culture (21:11). Another example of race relations as viewed by northerners is presented (21:43). It was discovered attitudes towards desegregation tended to soften up after implementation (23:54). The stimulus object approach (24:51) expects the African American community to thrive under harsher conditions than those set upon whites. The narrator states all six factors of racism in the United States necessary to understand in order to complete the epitaph of Jim Crow (27:20). The film was written by Thomas Pettigrew. 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