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

DVD format.

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [2004?] c2002.

1 videodisc (224 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- Audio-visual materials.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Audio-visual materials.

African Americans -- Social life and customs -- Audio-visual materials.

African Americans -- Social conditions -- Audio-visual materials.

Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- Audio-visual materials.

Segregation -- Law and legislation -- Southern States -- Audio-visual materials.

Racism -- Southern State -- Audio-visual materials.

Civil rights movements -- Audio-visual materials.

Documentary television programs -- Audio-visual materials.

United States -- Race relations -- Audio-visual materials.

Southern States -- Race relations -- Audio-visual materials.

Pollard, Sam.

Jersey, Bill.

Wormser, Richard, 1933-

Roundtree, Richard, 1942-

Quest Productions.

VideoLine (Firm)

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Videodisc release of a 2002 television production.

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.

Winner of the Peabody Award and the IDA Achievement Award, 2003.

Program 1. Promises betrayed (1865-1896) -- Program 2. Fighting back (1896-1917) -- Program 3. Don't shout too soon (1917-1940) -- Program 4. Terror and triumph (1940-1954).

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