1 Season
4 Episode
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Season 1 Episode 2 Fighting Back (1896-1917)
Emancipation ended slavery, but not its legacy.
As a successful black middle class arises, white supremacists are determined to destroy its political power, but educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown is among those helping African Americans continue to move forward. Black artists create new genres of American music. An intellectual elite typified by W.E.B. Du Bois, editor of the NAACP magazine THE CRISIS, emerges. Violence at home yields to warfare abroad as thousands of black Americans depart for World War I.
- Year: 2002
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
- Keyword: racial segregation, jim crow laws, civil rights movement, white supremacist laws, lynchings and beatings, southern united states
- Director:
- Cast: Richard Roundtree