Does anyone know if these can be ordered on video? I'd be
interested in them for a class I teach.
Julie Reuben
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:01:40 +0100 Jeffrey Blankfort
<jab@tucradio.org> wrote:
> 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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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Julie Reuben
Email: Julie_Reuben@harvard.edu
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
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