Highlighting Films with an Emphasis on Race

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Highlighting Films with an Emphasis on Race -
D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation (1915) -
Charles Hamilton Houston, A Visual Presentation
by the National Association for the Advancment of
Colored People - The Other Face of Dixie, CBS
NEWS, 1962 - Remember the Titans, 2000
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D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation (1915) What
You Will Be Seeing Three Scenes 1.
Introduction to Part II Reconstruction 2. The
Negro Party in Control of the South Carolina
House of Representatives, 1870 3. Clans Prepare
for Action Parade of the Clansmen
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D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Revival of the Klan
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D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Klan Violence
Postcard depicting the lynching of Lige Daniels,
Center, Texas, USA, August 3, 1920. The back
reads, "This was made in the court yard in
Center, Texas. He is a 16 year old Black boy. He
killed Earl's grandma. She was Florence's mother.
Give this to Bud. From Aunt Myrtle." According
to the Tuskegee Institute figures, between the
years 1882 and 1951, 4,730 people were lynched in
the United States 3,437 Negro and 1,293 white.
See http//www.withoutsanctuary.org/
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D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Response by NAACP
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Charles Houston, Visual Presentation by NAACP
(South Carolina, 1934) What You Will Be Seeing
Three Silent Scenes 1. Introduction On
Education in South Carolina 2. White School
Children, School House, Bus 3. Negro School
Children, School House, Walking
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Charles Houston, Visual Presentation (1934)
Other Photos
Charles Hamilton Houston The first black editor
of the Harvard Law Review Dean of Howard
University Law School Chief counsel to the
NAACP Targeted segregated education as the key to
undermining the entire Jim Crow system. Trained
Thurgood Marshall
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Charles Houston, Visual Presentation (1934)
Other Photos
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Charles Houston, Visual Presentation (1934)
Other Photos
Granby Elementary, September 10, 1953
Lafayette elementary school, January 1932
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Charles Houston, Visual Presentation (1934)
Other Photos
Lee School, April 26, 1946
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Charles Houston, Visual Presentation (1934)
Other Photos
Blackwater School, Novermber 30, 1946
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Charles Houston, Visual Presentation (1934)
Other Photos
Blackwater School, Novermber 30, 1946
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Charles Houston, Visual Presentation (1934)
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Blackwater School, Novermber 30, 1946
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Charles Houston, Visual Presentation (1934)
Other Photos
For instance,in 1925, Virginias state
and local governments spent an average of
40.27 per white pupil and only 10.47
per black student.
Nursery school on Chapel Street, July 7, 1939
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The Other Face of Dixie, CBS NEWS (1962)
What You Will Be Seeing Multi-scene 1.
Follow-Up Visit after Edward R. Murrows
Prize-winning show, The Lost Class of 59 2.
This film reviews the course of desegregation
between 1959 and 1962 3. Was desegregation
running as smoothly as CBS would have us believe?
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The Other Face of Dixie
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The Other Face of Dixie, CBS NEWS (1962)
See Your Handouts
By 1968, situation little better 73 public
schools 55,499 students 10 schools remained
100 white 19 schools were 100 black 9
schools were 99 white or black 10 schools
over 97 white or black In total, 59 of 73
schools were more than 90 white or black --
45,000 of 55,000 students gt segregated school

Louis Cousins, Maury High School
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Remember the Titans (2000)
What You Will Be Seeing Multi-scene 1.
Major Motion Picture Release 2. Edited clips from
film 3. Gettysburg 4. Refusal of Service 5.
Victory
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