I attended the first night of San Francisco's Yerba Buena film series
and found it extraordinary, particularly the documentary on the
integration of schools in New Orleans, which compared to other Southern
cities, was said to be light years ahead in social relations. It wasn't
evident then. The vicious hatred demonstrated by the whites in the
film, particularly the women, which was replicated throughout the South
during that period, places these folks in the same category as the worse
of the in South Africa, and ultra-orthodox Jewish settlers in the
still-occupied West Bank.
One gets the same feeling when watching the affection that George
Wallace's constituents showed for him when he announced that he would
block the doorway and prevent the first black students from entering the
state's university.
Bull Conner wasn't abberation. He represented the same mindset as those
folks who still believe that the Confederate Flag should be honored
because it was part of Southern historical heritage, or that there was
honor in serving the Southern cause.
Jeff Blankfort
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> > >
> > >
> > > Radman sent: Up Against the Camera
> > > >
> > > > 1959-1970: A REVOLUTION IN BLACK AND WHITE
> > > > At Yerba Buena Center for
> > > > the Arts, San Francisco,
> > > > July 14 through July 28.
> > > >
> > > > By Kelly Vance
> > > > Reviewed July 14, 2000
> > > >
> > ... The series opens tonight
> > > > (Friday, July 14) with a verit glimpse into the
> > > > establishment, specifically the war of nerves
> > > > between Alabama segregationist governor
> > > > George Wallace and the Kennedy White House on
> > > > the subject of school desegregation in Drew
> > > > Associates' Crisis: Behind a Presidential
> > > > Commitment (1963). That feature is
> > > > accompanied by a 1961 short on school
> > > > integration in New Orleans, The Children Were
> > > > Watching, and Edward O. Bland's Cry of Jazz
> > > > (1959), an influential examination of the significance of jazz in
> > > > African-American culture.
> >
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