Story of the Negro in America, The

Duration: 60 min.

Year Published: 1965

Creator: MCGH

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: (If 1965, possibly "The History of the Negro in America") Three part series. Part I 1619-1860 Out of Slavery starts with the promise of equality set forth in the Declaration of Independence and goes through the growth of slavery, to the eve of the Civil War. Describes the everyday life of the Negro as a slave in the South and as a free man in the North. Part II 1861-1876 Civil War and Reconstruction labels slavery and political struggle as the basic causes of the Civil War. Describes the Negro's fight for his freedom, the reforms of Reconstruction and the 1877 overview. Part III 1877-Today Freedom Movement Studies the Negro sharecropper's tenant-farmer existence. Describes his migration to the North and West. Considers his iinvolvement in the two World Wars and in the later Civil Rights battle on the homefront.

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