Jim Crow Town

Program Title:
Jim Crow Town
PRA Archive #: 
BZ0037.12
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Jim Crow Town / produced by Brenda McCallum. SERIES: Working lives| no. 12 Documentary on race rleations, from both Black and white perspectives, particularly before the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Examines vagrancy laws, convict labor, the Ku Klux Klan, segregated streetcars, cafes, public parks, zoning ordinances, and voting restrictions. Originated from the Archive of American Minority Cultures, the University of Alabama. NFCB archive number 5933

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29:00
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